INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Police have broken up a small protest outside the interior ministry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, leading to the arrest of at least a dozen people.
According to reports, riot police prevented the crowd from rushing into the building.
Reuters reported that at least 50 police cars surrounded the ministry, with riot police vastly outnumbering the number of protesters.
"They arrested a lot of people," pro-democracy activist Mohammed Al-Qahtani told CNN. "They started putting them in police cars and even buses to take them away."
The demonstrators were demanding the release of people detained by the government without trial for long periods on security charges. » | Monday, March 21, 2011
