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(51,907 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2015, 07:23 AM Dec 2015

Saudi Arabia's Mass Execution Slated for Tuesday May Not Include Prisoners Arrested as Children

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/33785-saudi-arabias-mass-execution-slated-for-tuesday-may-not-include-prisoners-arrested-as-children

Saudi Arabia will not execute detainees arrested as children but will likely behead a prominent Shia cleric and a raft of Al-Qaeda-linked prisoners, a local source told Middle East Eye on Tuesday.Fears were raised on Monday night that a group of prisoners were to be imminently executed, when famed

Saudi leaker @Mujtahidd said on Twitter that 55 people would be beheaded on Tuesday.

However, a Qatif-based source told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity that no executions are due to take place today.They said that through their work with diplomats and human rights organisations the Saudi government is now unlikely to execute a number of juvenile prisoners.

“I think Ali al-Nimr and the other two boys will not be executed,” the source said. “But for Sheikh Nimr, the four other Shia prisoners, and the Salafi detainees – unfortunately I think they will do it (execute them).”

The case of Ali al-Nimr sparked global outrage earlier this year, after American television presenter Bill Maher raised his case on Twitter. Nimr is one of three Saudi prisoners facing execution who were all under the age of 18 when they were arrested for taking part in anti-government protests. Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawoud al-Marhood all say there were tortured into confessing and subjected to unfair trials.