Saudi intellectuals call for implementing fundamental reform

Some 306 Saudi Arabian intellectuals including 51 women have called for the need of starting the implementation of a comprehensive and fundamental reform operation in the country.

The intellectuals signed a statement under the title "in defense of the homeland," in which they denounced all forms of violence and terrorism the Kingdom exposed to.

Among the signatories of the statement is the Saudi narrator Turkey al-Hamad, writer Khaled al-Dakhil, and economists Abdul Aziz al-Dakhil.

The signatories submitted their statement to the Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz, demanding the foundation of an independent national society to complete mechanisms capable of putting the demands on constitutional, political, economic and social reforms into actual implementation.

The signatories referred that the delay in adopting the fundamental reforms and the absence of people's participation in decision taking are the two main reasons for Saudi Arabia to have had reached a critical turning point in which a certain director is dominating dialogue and expressing Islam's tolerance.