Several hurt as Saudi forces fire on protesters

the reason for this specific protest.

The demonstrators had taken to the streets in the town of Shwika to protest against the death overnight Sunday of a 19-year-old Shiite man, Nasser al-Mheishi, accusing police of killing him, the witnesses said.
Mheishi had been wounded near a police checkpoint in unclear circumstances.

“The police told us that gunmen had opened fire on the police checkpoint… and that my son was caught in the crossfire between the police and the armed men, and was struck by four bullets,” the man’s father, Ali al-Mheishi told AFP.

But a witness later said that one of the policemen at the checkpoint shot Mheishi dead, his father said.

and th group being blames for this is thought to be from Iram by proxy mind you I dont see any evidence for this from the saudi spokesman only an indirect reference..

details are hard to come by right now, for people to be taking to the streets like this en mass it is unclear if they are all Shiite even their main cause for protest is unclear right now. the article only states the Shiite' complain of being marginalized.


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