Saudi Arabia beheads 37 citizens in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.
Saudi Arabia has beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes, and publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others.Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed described the executions as a politically motivated message to Iran
Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed, who runs the Gulf Institute in Washington, identified 34 of those executed as Shiites, based on the names announced by the Interior Ministry.Amnesty International also confirmed the majority of those executed were Shiite men. The rights group said they were convicted"after sham trials" that relied on confessions extracted through torture.
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