Prince
Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud has announced his defection from Al Saud
royal family through a statement, calling on other princes to break
their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God.
In
his statement on Saturday, the Saudi prince referred to his
'sufferings' under reign of Al Saud regime describing them as bitter
experiences that will be revealed by the Saudi twitter writer Mujtahid
and Saudi activist Saad al-Faqih, who is currently living in London.
He
said he thanked God that helped him understand the truth about Saudi
regime through a "direct horrible personal experience" so that he could
have a taste of what people suffered from throughout the country.
"With pride, I announce my defection from Al Saudi family in Saudi Arabia," he wrote in his statement.
"This
regime in Saudi Arabia does not stand by God's rules or even
(country's) established rules and its policies, decisions, and actions
are totally based on personal will of its leaders."
"All
that is said in Saudi Arabia about respecting law and religion rules
are factitious so that they can lie and pretend that the regime obeys
Islamic rules."
He criticized the royal family for
considering the country as its own property while silencing all voices
from inside and outside the government calling for any change and
reforms.
Khalid Bin Farhan said the ruling family has
deliberately pulled the country to the current condition where cries of
oppressed people are ignored. "They don't think about anything but their
personal benefits and do not care for country's and people's interests
or even national security," he added.
He warned that
current problems of Saudi Arabia are not "temporary or superficial" and
they do not end at unemployment, low wages and unjustified distribution
of common wealth, facilities and services.
"The problems
are deep and real," he said adding that they are concerned with
political and financial corruption and abuse of power by the regime
and fraud in the parliament and judiciary system.
The
Saudi prince said everything that the pro-reform opposition says about
country's political, economical, judiciary, social and security
condition as well as their abuse of religious values are true and "the
situation is even worse than what is said in criticisms".
He
called on all those who cared for the future of the country to join him
and the reform stream and break their silence on Al Saud corruptions.