Saudi teenager faces death penalty as crackdown widens in kingdom
PressTV – Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as…
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Saudi Arabia to execute three prominent scholars after Ramadan: Report
Press TV – Saudi officials are reportedly set to sentence three imprisoned dissident scholars to death and execute them shortly after the…
Shias in Saudi Arabia: Victims of US-backed state terror
Alwaght – On Saturday, Saudi security forces in another crime against the country’s Shiite minority killed at least 8 people in Tarot…
Iranian cleric slams Int’l circles’ silence on Saudi mass execution
Tasnim – Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi deplored the international organizations’ silence on the mass execution of 37 political prisoners…
Saudis disregarding human life callously: Amnesty Int’l
IRNA – The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty ‘to crush dissent…
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 people, mostly from Shia minority, puts body on display
RT – Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body…
Executing seven, Saudi Arabia brings 2017 beheading toll to 130
Press TV – Saudi Arabia has executed six Yemeni men and a Saudi man, bringing to 130 the total number of the…
14 Shia Saudis at imminent risk of execution, HRW warns
Press TV – The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that 14 Shia Saudi citizens are at imminent risk of execution after…
Amnesty calls on Saudi Arabia to halt execution of 14 dissenters
Press TV- Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of 14 individuals who were sentenced…
Amnesty: Saudi Arabia silence Shia dissent with execution
Press TV – Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, says Amnesty International. “These brutal…
Nimr’s execution sparks angry reactions among Shia, Sunni senior clerics
Tehran, January 2, The Iran Project – The execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a leading Shia cleric and a prominent critic of the Riyadh…
Saudi Arabia breaks 20-year execution record: Amnesty International
The figures on capital punishment coming out of Riyadh are staggering: there have been more than 150 people already executed in the…
Saudi Arabia executed 175 people in past year, says Amnesty International
On average, one person every two days was put to death in kingdom, says new report, with figures for 2015 already ahead…
Saudi Arabia beheads Syrian national on drug trafficking charges
Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Syrian national after sentencing him to death on charges related to drug trafficking. The convicted Syrian, identified…
Saudi executions at unprecedented rate: Amnesty
Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has carried out an unprecedented number of executions since the start of the year. The Britain-based rights…