Al Saud authorities fire guns to disperse prisoners of conscience solidarity in Riyadh

More than 200 protesters from families of prisoners and detainees without charge or trial in al-Ha'ir prison affiliated with the General Investigations in the capital Riyadh participated in the gathering, asking the security forces to allow them to visit their imprisoned to check on them and congratulate them on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, and insisted that they will not stop until they meet their children expressing their willingness to be arrested with them.
 
Emergency forces surrounded the people who started arriving on the main street leading to the entrance of the prison immediately upon completion of the noon prayers, with hundreds of security agents and imposed a security cordon on the prison to prevent a further influx of families wishing to join the protesters.

Offensive arguments broke out among the mothers of the imprisoned and senior officers of the security forces who tried to arrest four people in the forefront of the protesters, but the intervention of women and parents lining prevented the security forces arrest.

In the same context, the security forces surrounded at the same time the last gathering organized by dozens of families of prisoners and detainees in the city of Buraydah, north of the capital Riyadh.

Organizers were planning on protesting in front of the prison of the city which organized events and celebrations of solidarity with the prisoners and detainees, and distributed gifts and sweets to the children of prisoners participating in the Eid prayer, they also raised slogans and banners calling for the release of detainees in prisons immediately.

Rima Jureich a wife of one of the prisoners and an activist on movements demanding the release of prisoners confirmed that a police patrol had arrested her at dawn on Sunday when she was accompanied by her children to participate in the Eid prayers at the city's main mosque.

She reported that a police patrol had surrounded the car she was in at four thirty in the morning while she was on her way to perform the Eid prayer accompanied by her son and two of his sisters less than 100 meters from the family home.

Adding “the soldiers were pointing their guns at us asking the driver to get out amid screams and wailing children, while one of the soldiers retrieve the phone from my hands, my son jumped for my aid which led to the intervention of security men who beat my son and handcuffed him asking for my mobile phone and the gifts I had in the car in return for his release. I complied.”

http://www.youtube.com/embed/k3d5G_P24yo