On 14 January, protests calling for labor rights and opposing corruption took place in Riyadh in front of the ministries of health and employment.[1] One Saudi security force member was shot and wounded by unknown attackers on 14 January in the Qatif region.[2] The Guardian suggested that this could have been related to protestors using violence because of the apparent ineffectiveness of peaceful protests, but that it was unclear if the shooting was related to the political protests.[3] Saudi attributed the attacks to protestors on 24 January.[4]