Saudi authorities have detained two prominent clerics who came under fire for failing to publicly declare their support for the monarchy’s hard-line stance toward Qatar in the Gulf crisis. Security officers took one of the clerics, Salman Al-Odah, into custody over the weekend and cited his failure to come out in support of the Saudi stance on Qatar as the reason for his detention, according to human-rights activists. Mr. Odah, a former radical Islamist who in the past at times opposed the Saudi government, is popular in...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 11, 2017 19:41 UTC