RIYADH (AFP) - Two rights groups are lodging a complaint to the United Nations over the 'arbitrary' detention of a philanthropist Saudi prince, according to a document seen by AFP, adding to international pressure for his release.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
RIYADH - Two rights groups are lodging a complaint to the United Nations over the"arbitrary" detention of a philanthropist Saudi prince, according to a document seen by AFP, adding to international pressure for his release.
The prince was moved to a secret detention site in March but was mysteriously returned to the villa two months later, the sources said, after a US$2 million US lobbying effort and petitions from European lawmakers calling for his release. Most perplexing, the sources say, is that the prince and his father have never once been interrogated since their detention.Prince Salman was among 11 princes detained after they staged what Saudi Arabia's attorney-general called a sit-in at a royal palace in Riyadh to demand the state continue to pay their electricity and water bills.
"Some of those present were accused of taking part in meetings and pacts aiming to depose... crown prince, and sharing these ideas with people abroad hoping they would help them," ALQST said.PUSH FOR JUSTICE Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Prince Salman's father, was detained the next day in an official raid on his home after he"phoned some people in Europe", including a Paris-based lawyer, to help his son, ALQST said.
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