More Restrictions Toward Shia Muslims

Shia Rights Watch condemns the detention of a group of Shia clerics by the Saudi Authorities. Shia Rights Watch condemns the escalation of the Saudi restrictions over the country’s Shia clerics, especially the recent detention of a number of Shia clerics, and their placement under house arrest. The organization was informed by reliable sources that a group of Shia religious figures were arrested at a security point in Riyadh. The clerics were told they are being taken to have an interview with the Minister of Interior. They were held in a hotel for several days under house arrest. The organization believes that targeting Shia and suppressing them is openly and blatantly and torturing them with out any moral and legal justificationin an attempt to discredit them. SRW warns the consequences of those behaviors by the authoritarian regime, calling for international human rights organizations to address them firmly and condemn these dictatorship practices toward the Shia Muslims. The organization calls on Saudi government to review those practices, and work hard to repair the existing system before it gets worse.