Leading Saudi reformist arrested: wife

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DUBAI (AFP) — Leading Saudi reformist Matruk al-Faleh, who once served almost a year and a half in jail for demanding a constitutional monarchy, has been arrested, his wife and rights activists said on Tuesday.

Faleh's wife, Jamila al-Ukalaa, told AFP she was informed by the security services in a telephone call at midnight (2100 GMT) on Monday that her husband had been arrested in Riyadh.

"I was told he is in the custody of the security services. They did not give me any reason," she said by telephone from the Saudi capital.

Ukalaa said she had gone to the university where Faleh teaches to look for him on Monday after he failed to come home and found only his car in the car park.

Faleh was among three prominent Saudi reformists who spent 17 months...