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WWE wrestlers were “held hostage” in Saudi Arabia and stopped from returning to the U.S. in a row over payment, according to reports.

Since 2014, the WWE has staged events in the kingdom at regular intervals. The move has been widely criticized by human rights activists, especially since the gruesome 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, for which Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been blamed.

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The latest of these WWE pay-per-view events, titled Crown Jewel, was held on Thursday. During the show, the WWE reportedly cut the live feed early — a move which angered bin Salman.

According to Forbes, WWE commentator Hugo Savinovich speculated on Facebook that WWE CEO Vince McMahon had called for the feed to be cut early due to missed payments from Saudi Arabia for past events, possibly totalling hundreds of millions of dollars. When contacted by Forbes, the WWE denied the allegations.

The next day, however, as they prepared to return to the U.S., nearly 200 stars of the wrestling brand SmackDown and their entourages were kept waiting on the tarmac for six hours at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.