Zionist Puppet Saudi Arabia Continues Suppressing Popular Protests

Saudi security forces opened fire on demonstrators as a large number of people staged a rally in the oil-rich Eastern region of Qatif to call for the freedom of political inmates held in the country’s jails.

Thousands of demonstrators on Friday also demanded that the Al Saud regime set free prominent cleric Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr.

Sheikh Nemr was attacked, injured and arrested by Saudi security forces while driving from a farm to his house in Qatif on July 8.

Chanting slogans in support of social justice in the province, protestors asked the regime to stop killing civilians by the Saudi-backed forces in neighboring Bahrain, press tv reported.

Some of the demonstrators were also detained and some others were injured as a result of violent crackdown by the security forces, activists said.

Earlier in the week, similar demonstrations were held against the regime in the town of Awamiyah and the city of Buraydah.

Similar demonstrations have also been held in Riyadh and the holy city of Medina over the past few weeks.