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Saudi executes 47 in single day
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Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges on Saturday, including a Shiite cleric who was a central figure in 2011 Arab Spring inspired protests in the kingdom.
Riyadh : Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges on Saturday, including a Shiite cleric who was a central figure in 2011 Arab Spring-inspired protests in the kingdom.
The killing of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr may spark new unrest among Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority, largely concentrated in the kingdom's east, and in Bahrain, which has seen low-level violence since 2011 protests by its Shiite majority demanding greater rights from its Sunni monarchy.
The cleric's name was on a list of the 47 carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.Of those executed, Saudi Arabia said 45 were Saudi citizens, one was from Chad and another was from Egypt.
Saudi Arabia said a royal court order was issued to implement the sentences after all appeals had been exhausted. The executions were carried out on Saturday in the capital, Riyadh, and 12 other cities and towns, it said.
Al-Nimr had been a vocal critic of Bahrain's Sunni-led monarchy, which harshly suppressed the 2011 Shiite-led protests. Saudi Arabia sent troops to help Bahrain quash the uprising, fearing it would spread. Amnesty International has called the verdict against the cleric, who was in his mid-50s, part of a campaign by Saudi authorities to "crush all dissent."
Before his arrest in 2012, al-Nimr had said the people do not want rulers who kill and carry out injustices against protesters. Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades.
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