Saudi prince ?arrested over leaked abuse videos?
 

https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/up...5321_print.jpg RIYADH: A Saudi prince was arrested on Thursday on King Salman’s order, a state-run broadcaster reported, as outrage grew on social media over videos appearing to show him abusing members of the public.

Salman issued a warrant for “the immediate arrest ... and imprisonment” of Prince Saud, a descendent of Saudi Arabia’s founder, along with a group of men who appeared in the videos uploaded to YouTube, Al-Ikhbariya television reported.

A video circulating on social media showed police escorting the young prince -- one of the thousands of members of the royal family -- out of a house in handcuffs.

The arrest came after the prince, whose face can clearly be seen in some of the videos shared via Twitter on Wednesday, unleashed a wave of verbal and physical abuse on Saudis and foreigners.

“You park by my house, you ... eunuch, I’ll s...w your mother in her grave,” he says to a dazed driver bleeding from the mouth, his clothes splattered with blood.

“Do you understand?” he asks the man, who **ds and turns away. In a**ther video, a man moaning and clutching his head is led out of a house with an automatic rifle pointed at his back.

The prince also pummels a man cowering in a chair who waits for him to pause and insists, “Honest to God, I didn’t do anything. I swear to God.” The videos have sparked anger on social media, with users identifying as Saudi citizens calling for the prince to be put on trial.

“** matter who you are -- prince, minister, citizen -- ** one is above the law,” read one tweet. The victims in the videos will be called to testify in court, according to a royal decree carried by Al-Ikhbariya.

Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest rates of execution and widely imposes harsh sentences for criminal offences. In a highly unusual case, the kingdom last year executed a prince convicted of murder.

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