Pictures of al-Nimr "covered with what appeared to be a blood-stained white blanket" were published online by Eastern Province activists.

[46] Princess Sara bint Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, niece of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, applied for political asylum in the United Kingdom on 9 July.

[46] Ministry of Interior spokesperson Mansour al-Turki stated, "Some trouble-seekers took advantage of the gathering to hide in their midst and divert the context of this event which led the security forces to do their duty to keep the peace and ensure the safety of those participating in the funeral procession.

[45] Participants chanted "Down with the House of Saud", "Down with Mohammed bin Fahd" and "Qatif and Bahrain are one people" and carried Bahraini flags.

[60] Activists interviewed by Al Jazeera English stated that al-Ojami "had been walking by the police station and had not participated in any attack".

[citation needed] On the same day,[63] 180 Filipinos working in Saudi Arabia started a series[64] of hunger strikes in Riyadh to protest against "illegal recruitment, abusive employers, and government neglect".

[63] "The Filipino workers complained of many contract violations, including high fees, poor accommodation and underpayment or nonpayment of salaries over 10 months to a year.

"[63] Garry Martinez of Migrante International said that earlier protests in February 2012 had resulted in payment of unpaid wages to some of the workers.

[citation needed] Khaled al-Johani, who was imprisoned since his appearance at the 11 March 2011 "Day of Rage" protest in Riyadh, was given a temporary, 48 hours' release.

[65] A protest calling for political prisoners to be released and opposing the Saudi Arabian government took place in Riyadh in front of the Ministry of Interior on 25 July.

[citation needed] On 26 July, an al-Awamiyah youth movement called for participation in a "We are all leopards (نمور, 'nimrs')" rally in support of al-Nimr.

[69] Security forces in the vehicles shot live ammunition at protesters after midnight, injuring 14 people, including Mohamed al-Shakhouri, according to witnesses interviewed by Thomson Reuters and Agence France Presse (AFP).

[68] Mansour al-Turki stated that "there was no live firing and there weren't any injuries" and claimed that the arrests were unrelated to the political protest.

[citation needed] On the evening of 30 and 31 July 2000 people attended a funeral in Safwa for al-Nimr's wife, Muna Jabir al-Shariyavi, who had died in a New York hospital.

[citation needed] Ministry of Interior spokesperson Mansour al-Turki stated that "A security patrol was exposed to heavy fire from four armed rioters on a motorbike when pausing at a street intersection in Qatif" and that soldier Hussein Bawah Ali Zabani died from the shooting.

[citation needed] Thousands of people attended a funeral for Hussain Yusuf al-Qallaf in Tarout Island on the evening of 5 August.

[citation needed] A protest took place in Ta'if on 9 August calling for the release of political prisoners and opposing human rights violations.

[73] On 21 August, the Asharq Center for Human Rights expressed concern that Nimr al-Nimr was on the 45th day of his hunger strike while in prison and said that he had not been charged.

The Asharq Center appealed for international support for allowing access to al-Nimr by his family, lawyer and human rights activists.

[77] A board member of the ACPRA Mohammed Al-Qahtani at one point this day, told CNN that this demonstration "took place in front of the offices of the Human Rights Commission on King Fahd Road in Riyadh, the country's capital.

"[78] A huge march is held in the city of Buraydah led by a woman with a megaphone, going down the street with signs about problems with prisoners in Saudi Arabia and why they should be free.

[79] Tens of thousands of Saudis protested in the Eastern province of the country against the killing of a teenage demonstrator by state security forces.

[80][81] Over 100 clerics from the town of Qasim sign a petition "demanding that detainees held for security reasons should be given a trial or released," specifically objecting to the "treatment and arrest of the women."

[81][82] ABC News local 10 shows a video from CNN of about 2 minutes and thirty seconds of mostly women in Saudi Arabia protesting against detention.

[104] Specific numbers of this sit-in were confirmed by several tweets of Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN's international correspondent, who noted that 28 women were participating.

[107] Later, as Twitter user, e3teqal_eng noted, Women & children spent the whole night at the site what was being called the "Burayadh sit-in" and they even held their ground.