Dissident Saudi Blogger Is Arrested
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 31 -- Saudi Arabia's most popular blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, has been detained for questioning, an Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed Monday. It was the first known arrest of an online critic in the kingdom.
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Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
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Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.
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Saudi authorities have arrested 136 suspected militants over the past three months, accusing some of plotting to carry out suicide attacks inside the kingdom, the official news agency said Saturday.
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A Muslim Brotherhood blogger was released Saturday after a 45-day detention, but the crackdown against the group continued, with 51 Brotherhood members arrested in recent days, police said.
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Saudi Arabia has detained five people  suspected of spreading Islamic militant ideology in the  kingdom, which is battling an 18-month wave of al Qaeda  violence, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
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The leader of the British National party was arrested yesterday over remarks he made about Islam in an undercover documentary which exposed racism in his party.
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A blogger who was apparently picked up in an Internet crackdown by the Myanmar military government has been seen in detention at a government office, an opposition party spokesman said Monday.
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Saudi Arabia, fighting a violent campaign by al Qaeda supporters, has detained 139 suspected Islamist militants including a would-be suicide bomber, Al Arabiya television said on Saturday.
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Saudi Arabia says it has detained men suspected of planning militant attacks in the Hajj pilgrimage.
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An Emirati man charged with defamation on an Internet site was sent back to jail on Thursday, one week after a court in the United Arab Emirates released him on bail, sources close to the case said.
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CAIRO, Dec. 14 -- Police arrested the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood's chief strategist along with at least 140 others Thursday after a protest by uniformed students raised fears the Islamic political group is creating a military wing.
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Saudi riot police chased anti-royalist demonstrators through Jeddah yesterday and arrested more than a dozen as a tape recording, purportedly by Osama bin Laden, called
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Hamburg police has arrested a Syrian-born suspected to be an affiliate of al-Qaeda and one of key figures in the terrorist network.
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RIYADH  - Anti-regime demonstrations called for by a dissident Islamist group were thwarted as Saudi security forces deployed en masse in Riyadh and Jeddah, detaining 14 people and making it difficult to gauge the group&#39;s popularity.
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MANAMA: A Bahraini man has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, the family&#39;s lawyer told AFP yesterday. &quot;Mohamad Khan was arrested by Saudi authorities at about 10pm on Saturday after crossing the King Fahad Causeway,&quot; said Abdullah Hashim.
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Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.