In Saudi Arabia, more than 150 people have been arrested for protesting in the capital of Riyadh. The BBC reports police fired shots into the crowd of male and female demonstrators who were calling for political reform. The arrests came during the country’s first-ever human rights conference. Analysts say the protests shook the Saudi monarch, but publicly the government dismissed the demonstrators. The country’s Interior Minister said “What happened was just a limited gathering in [the] street. They are a small bunch … this won’t happen again.” Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority condemned the protest saying “demonstrations are the behaviour of non-Muslims”.