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Saudi Arabia arrests five for propagating extremism online
Sep 11, 2008, 0:26 GMT
Riyadh - Five people were arrested Wednesday in Saudi Arabia for using online chat rooms to propagate extremism and lure young conservative people to travel to sedition-stricken areas.
A statement of the Saudi Interior Ministry said that the two foreign residents and three Saudis have promoted 'misleading propaganda through the internet and incited young generations and facilitated their departure to troubled areas.'
'They hid behind their computers and gave themselves several assumed names in order to post material under one name and support it through a different account,' the ministry said. 'The aim was to give the impression that the society supports their ideas and to encourage those deluded to communicate with them in order to recruit them.'
The arrests are part of a campaign that began in 2003, when Saudi authorities arrested hundreds of people suspected of being linked to al-Qaeda militants.
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