Hezbollah Calls for Saudi Cleric Release

On Monday, Hezbollah issued a statement censuring the “violent lash out of Saudi security on peaceful protestors in the city of Awamiyah and the Qatif region; which led to the fall of martyrs and wounded.”?

Hezbollah expressed concern over the arrest and called for the “rapid release of his eminence Sheikh al-Nemr, for the provision of necessary medical aid for the sheikh, and for the respect of religious figures.”?

Part of the statement read “Hezbollah calls on the Saudi authorities to respect all religious figures and stop the practice of non-democratic measures in the face of the peaceful and legitimate demands of the Saudi citizens.”?

In June, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he called a “turbulent situation”? in the region.

According to the Human Rights Watch, the Saudi regime “routinely represses expression critical of the government.”?

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Source: IRIB World Service

On Monday, Hezbollah issued a statement censuring the “violent lash out of Saudi security on peaceful protestors in the city of Awamiyah and the Qatif region; which led to the fall of martyrs and wounded.”? Hezbollah expressed concern over the arrest and called for the “rapid release of his eminence Sheikh al-Nemr, for the provision of necessary medical aid for the sheikh, and for the respect of religious figures.”? Part of the statement read “Hezbollah calls on the Saudi authorities to respect all religious figures and stop the practice of non-democratic measures in the face of the peaceful and legitimate demands of the Saudi citizens.”? In June, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ordered the country’s security forces to go on a state of high alert due to what he called a “turbulent situation”? in the region. According to the Human Rights Watch, the Saudi regime “routinely represses expression critical of the government.”? The End Source: IRIB World Service