Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has released a Shiite cleric whose arrest last month provoked demonstrations and a Facebook call for a "Day of Rage", a human rights activist said Monday.
"Shaikh Tawfiq Al Amr was freed on Sunday night," Ibrahim Al Mugaiteeb, president of Human Rights First in Saudi Arabia, told AFP by telephone.
Several hundred people protested in the east of the kingdom on Friday after Amr was arrested on February 27, reportedly for calling for a constitutional monarchy in the kingdom, which is an absolute monarchy.