If this happened in Iran, the New York Times would have covered it from Toronto on the front page

"Saudi security forces confiscated books of a well-known reformer and critic of the royal family from stalls at the kingdom's annual international book fair, a Saudi civil rights group said Saturday. The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association said in a statement that Saudi security officers stormed a book stall at the Riyadh International Book Fair on Thursday and confiscated all of the works by Abdellah Al-Hamid."" (thanks Fawzi)