RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Saudi prince claims his government lured him to Switzerland, drugged him, then kidnapped him to Riyadh, where he is being held under house arrest.
Prince Sultan bin Turki bin Abdel-Aziz, grandson of Saudi Arabia's first king, told the BBC Wednesday he was attacked for waging a public campaign for government reform in the desert kingdom.
Abdel-Aziz said two Saudi ministers lured him to a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, in June. There, he said he was confronted by five masked men who kidnapped and drugged him. When he regained consciousness, he said found himself back in Saudi Arabia, where he was hospitalized for several weeks.
The prince told the BBC he is now under house arrest and in poor health.
This is not the first rift among the royal family, the BBC said. The prince's father, Prince Turki bin Abdel-Aziz -- a brother of the country's ailing monarch, King Fahd -- moved to Egypt after a falling-out with senior princes.
