AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia — A cleric’s threat of secession has brought a swift government crackdown in this poor, radical Shiite town in Saudi Arabia’s increasingly restive religious minority heartland atop the Sunni kingdom’s main oil reserves.
Saudi government cracks down on Shiite dissidents
AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia — A cleric’s threat of secession has brought a swift government crackdown in this poor, radical Shiite town in Saudi Arabia’s increasingly restive religious minority heartland atop the Sunni kingdom’s main oil reserves.
