Saw this in The Guardian:
Al-Farhan is one of the few bloggers who uses his real name. His blog headline reads: "Searching for freedom, dignity, justice, equality, shoura and all the rest of lost Islamic values.'' Shoura is Arabic for public consultation. . . .
In it, he also said he believed Saudi authorities were after him because he "wrote about political prisoners in Saudi Arabia.''
Al-Farhan added that officials asked him to sign an apology but that he wasn't ready to do that.
"An apology for what? Apologizing because I said the government is liar when it accused those people of supporting terrorism,'' he said.
Another Saudi blogger, Ahmad Al-Omran, told Arab News that al-Farhan's arrest could have been an attempt to intimidate other bloggers.
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