Saudi Arabia has executed 37 of its citizens convicted of terrorism, three years after another mass execution that ultimately led to a break in relations with Iran
On Sunday, four men were killed in an attack on a security services base north of the capital Riyadh in an assault claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group.
Saudi authorities arrested 13"terrorist" suspects the next day, but they did not say where the arrests took place or if they were linked to Sunday's attack.The interior ministry said some of those executed Tuesday were accused of"inciting sectarian strife", a charge often used in Saudi Arabia against Shiite activists.
A protester delivers a speech to the Saudi government regarding the execution of an Indonesian migrant worker Zaini Misirin in 2018.Rights group Amnesty International, in a statement, said most of those executed were Shiite men"convicted after sham trials that violated international fair trial standards which relied on confessions extracted through torture".
The executions were"yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent" from within the country’s Shiite minority, said Lynn Maalouf, Middle East research director at Amnesty.The rights watchdog said 11 of those executed were convicted of spying for Iran, while at least 14 others were sentenced in connection with anti-government protests in the Eastern Province between 2011 and 2012.
Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran were attacked in violent demonstrations, prompting Riyadh to sever relations with Tehran.
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