Saudi Man Faces Beheading For Protesting As A Teenager

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Saudi Man Faces Beheading For Protesting As A Teenager

by Beenish Ahmed at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/10/14/3712431/saudi-execution/

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Ali Mohammad al-Nimr was 17 years old when he was arrested by Saudi Arabian authorities for his participation in Arab Spring protests led by the kingdom’s Shia minority in 2011. Three years into his imprisonment, courts have sentenced him to be beheaded and have his corpse publicly displayed. The sentence has garnered outcry from foreign leaders, international rights’ organizations, and the young man’s family, but Saudi officials have rebuffed their attempts at intervening on behalf of al-Nimr.

“I feel that one’s very being is repelled at such a ruling,” al-Nimr’s mother, Nusra al-Ahmed, told the Guardian. “It’s backwards in the extreme. No sane and normal human being would rule against a child of 17 years old using such a sentence. And why? He didn’t shed any blood, he didn’t steal any property. Where did they get it [this sentence]? From the dark ages?”

She believes that Saudi courts sentenced her son to death due to her family’s faith and activism. Al-Nimr’s uncle, a prominent Shia cleric and political dissident, was sentenced to death by courts in the Sunni-majority state last October.

An annual death penalty study conducted by Amnesty International found that Saudi Arabia executes more people than almost any country in the world. In fact, the country averages one execution every two days, according to a report on the country’s criminal justice system that the rights’ organization released in August.



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[Warpy]

1. Yes, they got it from the Dark Ages

and they will continue to cling to it, to butcher their people, until the Wahab royal family is finally and completely overthrown.