Marian Houk on Twitter: “Saudi Info Minister told AFP that London-based Saudi dissident Saad Al-Faqih was behind the mujtahidd account, “together w/ Qatar” #PT”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/Marianhouk/status/883423160217030658
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Saudi Arabia accuses Qatar of using Twitter to stoke dissent
▻http://www.arabnews.com/node/1125646/saudi-arabiaThey included the @mujtahidd account, which claims to have the inside track on the Saudi royal household and has over 1.8 million followers, he said.
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Saudi: Sheikh Nimr’s Crucified Fate
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-sheikh-nimr%E2%80%99s-crucified-fateNimr was arrested and released for the first time in May 2006, upon his return from Bahrain. Nimr was detained again in August 2008, after Saad al-Faqih, the exiled Saudi dissident, claimed that Saudi authorities feared Nimr because he was backed by Iran. Nimr was released hours later.
Then, on 8 July 2012, he was arrested after organizing a petition demanding the Saudi government recognize the Shia faith and reform educational curricula to remove derogatory mentions of Shias.
After that, Nimr kept a low profile in the Eastern Province, but his speeches and statements continued to draw attention. In a famous sermon, he threatened that al-Qatif would secede, and said, “Our dignity is more precious than the unity of this land.”
In Nimr’s last sermon before his arrest, he launched a scathing attack against the late Crown Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz, calling him a tyrant who would be tormented in the hereafter.
