Authorities Monday announced the names of 23 men wanted for involvement in acts of public disruption during the past few months in the Eastern Province. The group is accused mainly of “possessing illegal firearms and opening fire on the public and police, in addition to using innocent people as shields,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. They are also accused of having taken part in “mobs, which blocked traffic (and) damaged public and private property” during sporadic confrontations between police and protesters. “Those outlaws are a minority who do not represent the honorable people of the region, who have had enough of their acts, as some of them have a criminal record,” the ministry said. It said the wanted men were directed to appear before the authorities concerned after an inquiry and the adoption of legal procedures. As these men deliberately ignored the directives, arrest warrants are being issued against them, the statement said. Security authorities will pursue these outlaws within and outside the Kingdom so that they can stand trial and justice can take its course, the statement added. The wanted men are: Ahmad Sharaf Hassan Al-Saadah, Bashir Jaffar Hassan Al-Mutlaq, Hassan Jaffar Hassan Al-Mutlaq, Hussain Hasan Ali Aal Rabi', Hussain Ali Abdullah Al-Barraki, Khaled Abdul Kareem Al-Lubbad, Rizwan Jaffar Muhammad Aal Rizwan, Ramzi Muhammad Abdullah Aal Jamal, Salman Ali Salman Aal Faraj, Shah Ali Issa Aal Shoukan, Abbas Ali Muhammad Al-Mazrou', Abdullah Salman Saleh Aal Asraih, Ali Hassan Ahmad Aal Zayid, Ali Muhammad Mahdi Khalfan, Fazil Hasan Abdullah Al-Safwani, Muhammad Hasan Ahmad Aal Zayid, Muhammad Saleh Abdullah Al-Zinadi, Muhammad Abdul Raheem Al-Farraj, Muhammad Issa Saleh Aal Labbad, Muhammad Kazim Jaffar Al-Shakhouri, Mursi Ali Ibrahim Aal Ribh, Muntazir Ali Saleh Al-Thubaiti and Moussa Jaffar Muhamamd Al-Mabyouq. The ministry has called upon all the wanted men to turn themselves in to the nearest police station in the Kingdom or to the Kingdom's consulates abroad. Those who do so will have their action taken into consideration when their cases are heard in court, it said.
