BBC News: Saudi hunger strike for prisoners 4.0 star rating

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7715337.stm

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Saudi Arabian activists are on a two-day hunger strike to protest against the detention without charge of hundreds of Saudi citizens.

They are hoping to draw attention to "flagrant human-rights violations" of prisoners held without trial, especially 11 political reformists.

(Pictured is protest organiser Mohammad al-Qahtani, at home on hunger strike).

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Created by Lightowl on 08 November 2008

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Fair trials are a human right.

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