roxanne here has been strongly critical. we visited several embassies outside of which there were protesters including the us embassy the russian embassy the british embassy and the protesters basically sharing the same message saying they don't want blood still the dough one four and they don't want to see russian troops here now. i said of god. convey that there is a stark contrast between what is happening in crimea which is south west of the southern peninsula that sticks out of ukraine what's happening here in the north in kiev. there isn't really an indication here are a fear among many people that tomorrow russian tanks are going to roll into the capital but there is a sort of awareness of what is happening a concern because many people are seeing it on their images on tv here and signals are forcing many people consider it a threat to ukrainian sovereignty ukrainian national territorial integrity. at least one person at those protests who is a russian born hold russian passports it is ukrainian and voted for the conn

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why roxann saberi reports. >> credit in a place where the arab spring never really materialized. the government discourages dissent by dirk out money and protests are banned, activists say, even if he risks further upsetting the relationship. >> it is one of the most repressive governments in the middle east, yet it gets treated with kid gloves. >> the country's new antiterrorism law will make protesting even harder by making any kind of peaceful dissent a crime. >> one example of that is under this new antiterrorism law harming the reputation of the state is an act of terrorism. >> a lot of the protesters are from saudi arabia's eastern province, where many work in oil fields. facing ridge political discrimination. and then there's the issue of women's rights. they can't tranl travel o -- trr marry without the permission of a male guardian. >> are the time has come for women to take charge of every aspect of their lives. being allowed out is the very least of it. getting from a to b is just a minimum human right. >> reporter: on saturday some saudi women plan to defy the governm