Saudi Arabia has arrested 8 people, including 2 dual US-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn Western condemnation, an associate and a rights group say.
The U.S. nationals are journalist Salah al-Haidar, whose mother Aziza al-Yousef is among those on trial, and Bader al-Ibrahim, a doctor and author of a book about Shiite Muslim politics, the associate and London-based Saudi rights group ALQST said.Those newly detained, seven men and one woman, are not frontline activists but have expressed support of women's rights and other reforms.
Five other people close to the women have also been placed under a travel ban since February, they added. The Saudi government communications office and the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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