Saudi Interior Ministry 37 executed over terror charges

   

Kevin Barrett

 

Published on Apr 27, 2019

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/26/594384/Saudi-Executions-profiles-bin-Salman-Sh

A Shia academic, a disabled protester and a number of detained minors were among 37 people that Saudi Arabia executed in its recent mass execution on "terrorism" charges, a new report has revealed.

Human rights groups state that at least 33 out of the 37 individuals executed on Tuesday were from Saudi Arabia's persecuted Shia minority, the Middle East Eye reported Thursday.

Dcuments obtained by the CNN show that many of the executed individuals had "repeatedly" told the Saudi court that, in a bid to save their lives, they had been forced to accept confessions their torturers had written for them.

In one case, one of the defendants affirmed loyalty to the Saudi kingdom in hopes of getting leniency from the court, only to be executed later on...


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