On 16 January, 70,000 mourners accompanied Issam Mohamed Abu Abdallah's body in a funeral procession in al-Amawiyah. Mourners chanted slogans against the House of Saud and against late Minister of Interior, Nayef, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, including "Down with Al Saud", "Down with Nayef" and "Nayef, you are responsible of killing the martyr".[1] On the same day, al-Awamiyah residents started signing a petition calling for an independent investigation into the protestors' deaths,[2] gathering 760 signatures by 23 January.[3]