IRNA The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabias use of the death penalty 'to crush dissent from within the countrys Shia minority', said Amnesty International on Wednesday. Among those put to death was a young man who was convicted of a crime that took place while he was under the age of 18, Amnesty International said ...

RT - Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body of one of them on a pole. The execution was carried out after "sham trials," Amnesty International said. The ultra-conservative kingdom on Tuesday beheaded 37 of its citizens in its biggest mass execution in three years and ...