Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton: Luxury hotel or detention center for Saudi royals?

They were herded into the lobby with their baggage and whisked off to other hotels in the hotel in the Saudi Arabian capital. The scenes were described in a somewhat gleeful account by former News Corp journalist Martin Chulov: “From midnight, buses arrived in the sprawling complex disgorging princes, business leaders, other royals, their guards and their captors,” he wrote.