12/8/2014
RIYADH – The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced Sunday the arrests of 135 people around the country for having links to terrorist groups and joining their ranks to fight abroad.
The majority of those arrested are Saudis, but there are also 16 Syrians, three Yemenis and an Egyptian among the 26 foreigners taken into custody, the Interior Ministry said in a statement published by the official Spa news agency.
Forty of the suspects were arrested for leaving the country and traveling to conflict zones to join extremists there, receiving training in the use of weapons and returning to Saudi Arabia to carry out violent acts.
Another 45 men were allegedly implicated in various operations to finance radical groups, recruit new members, spread propaganda and shelter extremists who are fugitives from justice.
Also, 17 of the men arrested have been accused of being involved in disturbances and attacks against security forces in the eastern Shiite-majority Saudi city of Al Awamiya.
The suspects are also accused of possessing and smuggling weapons, planning violent acts and maintaining contacts with extremists abroad.
In recent months, hundreds of people have been sentenced to prison terms and even death on terrorism-related charged in Saudi Arabia, which has said it would punish anyone traveling to countries such as Syria or Iraq to fight with extremist groups.
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RIYADH – The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry announced Sunday the arrests of 135 people around the country for having links to terrorist groups and joining their ranks to fight abroad.The majority of those arrested are Saudis, but there are also 16 Syrians, three Yemenis and an Egyptian among the 26 foreigners taken into custody, the Interior Ministry said in a statement published by the official Spa news agency.
Forty of the suspects were arrested for leaving the country and traveling to conflict zones to join extremists there, receiving training in the use of weapons and returning to Saudi Arabia to carry out violent acts.
Another 45 men were allegedly implicated in various operations to finance radical groups, recruit new members, spread propaganda and shelter extremists who are fugitives from justice.
Also, 17 of the men arrested have been accused of being involved in disturbances and attacks against security forces in the eastern Shiite-majority Saudi city of Al Awamiya.
The suspects are also accused of possessing and smuggling weapons, planning violent acts and maintaining contacts with extremists abroad.
In recent months, hundreds of people have been sentenced to prison terms and even death on terrorism-related charged in Saudi Arabia, which has said it would punish anyone traveling to countries such as Syria or Iraq to fight with extremist groups.
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