Saudi Arabia has passed without significant incident the Day of Wrath feared that thousands of people had backed on Facebook. From early morning a massive security deployment discouraged any attempt to demonstrate in Riyadh. The same happened in Jeddah, the second largest city. Only protests by hundreds of people in various localities in the Eastern Province, the oil region where the Shia population is concentrated.
That community activism is, until now, the main challenge to the regime of the Al Saud. In the capital, the authorities felt confident enough to take journalists to the places where demonstrations were expected. "We want to see for yourselves that there is nothing," said Brigadier Nasser al Qahtany at the intersection of Olaya with Tahliya, with a checkpoint.
Although it was not on the itinerary, the Information Ministry officials agreed to stop in front of the Court of Grievances, one of the sites included in the notice. Dozens of police vehicles and hundreds of agents guarding the area. Had just finished midday prayers in the mosque next door had emptied without incident.
"How come people want if the whole neighborhood infested with uniformed police and plainclothes?" A man suddenly blurts this correspondent and reporting. But do you manifest? "Of course, we want democracy and freedom as the rest of the world are not owned by the royal family who is stealing the wealth of this country," he says.
We suggest you lower your voice because you will hear the cops. "I do not care, I have no fear of them take me to jail because the country is a big prison," he adds further raising the voice. Identified as Khaled Mohamed Obeid to Yahani, 40 and an Arabic teacher. He says being married and having a baby.
Immediately, all the reporters around him while police and officials are looking stunned. Decided not to intervene while the man continues with his speech. "I want everyone to hear my voice, you know that we have no right to speak, that the speaker is in jail five minutes later. We are told to say nothing about the king, the royal family on the money they spend "continues more and more nervous.
What counts as we have said privately reformist intellectuals, human rights activists and other Saudis who, however, are not yet ready to take to the streets to defend their rights. "Tonight we will sleep in the hotel of Prince Naif," said one official, referring to the Minister of Interior.
Has been isolated and desperate voice. It is unclear whether the words of the Qur'an Ibrahim "was alone, but it was a nation." Some observers believe that the royal family should jump on the bandwagon of reform before it is too late. Meanwhile, in neighboring Bahrain and Yemen continues to increase tension.
Bahraini police have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators trying to reach the royal palace and avoid confrontation with groups of guards who were waiting with swords and sticks. In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, has once again repeated the pulse of anti-and pro demonstrations Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Aden while two people were injured by gunfire and three have had to be treated for tear gas. 
That community activism is, until now, the main challenge to the regime of the Al Saud. In the capital, the authorities felt confident enough to take journalists to the places where demonstrations were expected. "We want to see for yourselves that there is nothing," said Brigadier Nasser al Qahtany at the intersection of Olaya with Tahliya, with a checkpoint.
Although it was not on the itinerary, the Information Ministry officials agreed to stop in front of the Court of Grievances, one of the sites included in the notice. Dozens of police vehicles and hundreds of agents guarding the area. Had just finished midday prayers in the mosque next door had emptied without incident.
"How come people want if the whole neighborhood infested with uniformed police and plainclothes?" A man suddenly blurts this correspondent and reporting. But do you manifest? "Of course, we want democracy and freedom as the rest of the world are not owned by the royal family who is stealing the wealth of this country," he says.
We suggest you lower your voice because you will hear the cops. "I do not care, I have no fear of them take me to jail because the country is a big prison," he adds further raising the voice. Identified as Khaled Mohamed Obeid to Yahani, 40 and an Arabic teacher. He says being married and having a baby.
Immediately, all the reporters around him while police and officials are looking stunned. Decided not to intervene while the man continues with his speech. "I want everyone to hear my voice, you know that we have no right to speak, that the speaker is in jail five minutes later. We are told to say nothing about the king, the royal family on the money they spend "continues more and more nervous.
What counts as we have said privately reformist intellectuals, human rights activists and other Saudis who, however, are not yet ready to take to the streets to defend their rights. "Tonight we will sleep in the hotel of Prince Naif," said one official, referring to the Minister of Interior.
Has been isolated and desperate voice. It is unclear whether the words of the Qur'an Ibrahim "was alone, but it was a nation." Some observers believe that the royal family should jump on the bandwagon of reform before it is too late. Meanwhile, in neighboring Bahrain and Yemen continues to increase tension.
Bahraini police have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators trying to reach the royal palace and avoid confrontation with groups of guards who were waiting with swords and sticks. In Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, has once again repeated the pulse of anti-and pro demonstrations Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Aden while two people were injured by gunfire and three have had to be treated for tear gas.
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