RIYADH: Calls have been growing on social media for Saudi Arabia’s jobless to protest on Sunday, after a similar appeal before the government restored benefits to civil servants last weekend.
Demonstrations are banned in the conservative kingdom, and the previous calls for civic action led police to flood Riyadh on April 21.
Media access is also controlled, though Saudis are very active on social media including on Twitter, where many post anonymously with fabricated usernames. Under the hashtag “Unemployed rally April 30”, several Saudi Twitter users posted calls for demonstrations outside government employment offices on Sunday.
“Because of the April 21st movement, the benefits were returned, my brother citizen do not deprive yourself and come out on April 30, may God assist you to overcome your troubles,” wrote one Twitter user under the name @Hussain_Khalid.
Another using the hashtag wrote “we are only looking for jobs,” while another posted: “We’re not Daesh, we’re not with Iran, all we want is to be employed, nothing else.”
The comment referred to Saudi Arabia’s regional rival Iran and the jihadist Islamic State group, known by the Arabic acronym Daesh.
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