?I hit the food and demanded a constitutional rule in Saudi Arabia .. Know the late Prince
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Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, 88, who was known for his hunger strike months ago in protest at the arrest of his son Walid bin Talal and his brothers, died in a wave of arrests by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shortly after he took office. His post in July 2017
The announcement of the death of Prince Talal came in comments published by members of the ruling family (Saturday, December 22nd) through their pages on Twitter, which is unusual in the royal family ceremony in Saudi Arabia
It was customary to declare the death of an Emiri figure through the Royal Court, while not in the case of the death of Prince Talal, which apparently indicates differences between him and King Salman and his son Mohammed, which imposes policies inside and outside the Kingdom did not live for many
Prince Talal, who died after a health ailment, is the 18th son of King Abdul Aziz. He entered the political life as minister of transport in 1952 and held the posts of Minister of Finance and Transport and was appointed ambassador to France.
The Prince is on the hunger strike
Prince Talal is an exceptional case in the Saudi royal family because of his position on his brothers from the sons of King Abdul Aziz al-Saud, known for his call for constitutional monarchy and the establishment of the Free Princes
Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz has been on a hunger strike since November 10, 2017, in an interview with the Middle East A website, in protest against the November 4, 2017 arrests that included three of his sons, including well-known businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
The sources said at the time that Prince Talal lost ten kilograms of weight in a month, and that doctors at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh were fed to him through a feeding tube
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited Prince Talal after the arrests to express his condolences for the death of his sister Princess Madawi, where he took a photograph of the king accepting the hand of his older brother, who was sitting in a wheelchair
Founder of the "Free Princes
In 1958, Prince Talal and four of his brothers established the Free Princes Movement because of the tensions between King Saud and Prince Faisal. He then called for the creation of a parliamentary constitutional rule and the removal of the ruling family from governance
After the founding of the movement, Prince Talal's money was confiscated, Saudi Arabia left for Egypt and was hosted by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. King Saud withdrew his diplomatic passport
During his stay in Egypt, the Saudi prince opposed the kingdom's policy, especially its intervention in Yemen, and called for more political reforms in the kingdom
He was allowed to return under the reign of King Faisal, provided he did not intervene in the affairs of state and government, and since then has been working in the development and educational affairs
In 2011, Prince Talal announced his resignation from the Allegiance Commission, weeks after the appointment of his half-brother Prince Nayef as Crown Prince
After the death of Prince Nayef and the appointment of Prince Salman (Crown Prince) as Crown Prince, he said that the Allegiance Commission had not been invited to the meeting to consult on this appointment, saying that Arab property should be changed to constitutional monarchies; age
At the time, Prince Talal cautioned against "threats to the kingdom" unless Saudi King Abdullah took serious steps toward reform
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