Mian Shakeel Aslam---Fourteen people in clashes in eastern Saudi Arabia were injured, state media say.
They said the unrest in the province of Qatif Monday night was a "foreign country" were encouraged, without elaborating. Minority Shiite population of Saudi Arabia to the east, the scene of previous events have focused this year. State media said eight of the wounded were security personnel and three civilians. State news agency SPA quoted the Interior Ministry saying that "a group of bandits and thugs on a motorcycle," a al-Awamia village near the town of Qatif gathered, "Molotov cocktail bag." The group was responsible for the actions, "wants the uncertainty with an agitation of a foreign country to undermine the security of the nation and stability" for, SPA reported. Saudi mention of foreign interference in general references to Iran, the largest in the region of veiled Shiite power, observers say. In March, police opened fire on demonstrators in Qatif, Saudi, one day before the events planned at the national level against the government to disperse. The demonstrators, from the Shiite minority called for the release of prisoners said they had been held without charge. Demonstrations are illegal in Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy since unification in 1930. Rights groups are fighting the police at previous rallies, demonstrators accused in Qatif. Shiites represent about 10% of the population in the Sunni Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia saw no protests on the same scale as the other nations of the Middle East and North Africa in the spring called Arab.Posted By: Mian Shakeel Aslam
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15169769
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