Saudi Arabia: Islamic activist al-Awaji arrested
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 3/14/2006

Men of religion close to the Saudi Arabian advocate Mohsin al-Awaji announced on Monday that the Saudi authorities detained the prominent religious advocate.

This detention came after he had published an article on the Internet in which he said that a liberal groups of ministers and officials are the genuine forces which works behind the curtains and it is in direct contacts with the Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz.

Al-Awaji colleagues said that that police held the Islamic clergy since last Friday and his detention may continue for weeks.

The detention news was published on a site used by Islamists while a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior denied knowledge that al-Awaji was detained.

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