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Riyadh: Saudi reform activists arrested in February on suspicion of funding terrorism were considering forming a political grouping in the kingdom, a prominent reformer said yesterday.
"Some of the men ... were interacting and discussing an idea revolving around the possibility of creating a political forum [party]," Matruk Al Faleh said in a statement.
"The arrests seem to abort the very idea itself," said the politics professor, who was jailed in 2005 over his calls for political reform.
Faleh, now released, said they wanted "to concretely push the democratic reform movement".
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