07Nov2008 Saudi hunger strike for prisoners (BBC)

BBC

Seventy two poltical activits are on hunger strike in Saudi Arabia in protest at the detention without charge of "hundreds of Saudi citizens".

Those detained are terrorist suspects or political reformers who have contravened Saudi law.

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