Following the King Khalid University protests in Abha, protests took place in Riyadh, al-Namas, Arar, Qatif and al-Rabeeya. A student criticised university conditions at a public meeting with the head of Taibah University in Medina and was expelled as a result.[1] The Arab Network for Human Rights Information claimed that there was a "[protest] movement [spreading] at the universities level".[59]