Billionaire Saudi Prince, Alwaleed bin Talal, Is Freed From Detention<br />Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia on Saturday gave an interview in what was<br />said to be the Ritz-Carlton suite where he was detained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<br />Then on Saturday, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi Arabia’s most famous investor and one of the world’s richest men, reappeared, giving a videotaped tour of the luxury suite in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh<br />that he said had been his home for the past few months.<br />Samia Nakhoul, the Middle East editor for Reuters, said<br />that Saudi officials had offered the interview with Prince Alwaleed after the agency asked about a BBC report suggesting that he had been kept in a prisonlike cell outside the Ritz and mistreated.<br />Katie Paul, the Reuters reporter who conducted the interview, said<br />that Saudi officials had escorted her to the Ritz because the government currently controls the hotel.<br />After a brief visit by two people — one who served coffee, and another who helped set up the camera — she and the prince spoke in a room<br />that he referred to as his office, with no one else present, Ms. Paul said.<br />Saudi officials denied that report and offered to take a Reuters reporter to interview the prince, Ms. Nakhoul said.
