Several Injured in Police Live Ammunition in Qatif, KSA
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Numerous demonstrators have been wounded in Saudi Arabia's eastern district of Qatif after security forces opened fire on protesters.
Officers fired live rounds at demonstrators, who carried placards of detained protesters who were injured and arrested earlier this month.
Clashes between police and protesters have increased in recent days, following the deaths of two protesters earlier this month.
Also, the demonstrators demanded the release of the Saudi cleric Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr and all poltical prisoners.
On July 8, Sheikh Nemr was attacked, injured and arrested by Saudi security forces while driving from a farm to his house in the flashpoint city of Qatif, in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province.
Chanting slogans in support of social justice in the oil-rich Eastern Province, protestors asked the regime to stop killing civilians by the Saudi-backed forces in neighboring Bahrain.
Since February 2011, protesters have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in Saudi Arabia, mainly in the Qatif region and Awamiyah in Eastern Province, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination.
Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org
Numerous demonstrators have been wounded in Saudi Arabia's eastern district of Qatif after security forces opened fire on protesters.
Officers fired live rounds at demonstrators, who carried placards of detained protesters who were injured and arrested earlier this month.
Clashes between police and protesters have increased in recent days, following the deaths of two protesters earlier this month.
Also, the demonstrators demanded the release of the Saudi cleric Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr and all poltical prisoners.
On July 8, Sheikh Nemr was attacked, injured and arrested by Saudi security forces while driving from a farm to his house in the flashpoint city of Qatif, in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province.
Chanting slogans in support of social justice in the oil-rich Eastern Province, protestors asked the regime to stop killing civilians by the Saudi-backed forces in neighboring Bahrain.
Since February 2011, protesters have held demonstrations on an almost regular basis in Saudi Arabia, mainly in the Qatif region and Awamiyah in Eastern Province, calling for the release of all political prisoners, freedom of expression and assembly, and an end to widespread discrimination.
Source: News Agencies, edited by moqawama.org
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