PressTV - Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. Murtaja Qureiris is currently being tried at a terror court, where ...

Press TV - Saudi officials are reportedly set to sentence three imprisoned dissident scholars to death and execute them shortly after the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. The London-based online news outlet Middle East ...

Alwaght - On Saturday, Saudi security forces in another crime against the countrys Shiite minority killed at least 8 people in Tarot Island in the Shiite-majority Qatif province. The media reports suggested that the regimes forces entered Sanabis town of Tarot region and killed the 8 people in a shootout after an encirclement of a number of houses....

Tasnim Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi deplored the international organizations silence on the mass execution of 37 political prisoners in Saudi Arabia. A number of Muslims in Saudi Arabia, including pure Shiites, have been mercilessly martyred by the Al Saud regime without any trial and special reason, Ayatollah Makarem ...

IRNA The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabias use of the death penalty 'to crush dissent from within the countrys Shia minority', said Amnesty International on Wednesday. Among those put to death was a young man who was convicted of a crime that took place while he was under the age of 18, Amnesty International said ...

RT - Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body of one of them on a pole. The execution was carried out after "sham trials," Amnesty International said. The ultra-conservative kingdom on Tuesday beheaded 37 of its citizens in its biggest mass execution in three years and ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has executed six Yemeni men and a Saudi man, bringing to 130 the total number of the people beheaded by the kingdom since the beginning of the year. The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement cited by the SPA news agency on Tuesday that the Yemenis were executed in Abha, the capital ofthe southern province of Assir. According ...

Press TV - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that 14 Shia Saudi citizens are at imminent risk of execution after Saudi Arabias Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in mid-July following an unfair trial over protest-related charges. In a Thursday report, the HRW cited the families of the 14 men as saying that they were transferred ...

Press TV- Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of 14 individuals who were sentenced to death following a grossly unfair mass trial as part of the kingdoms bloody execution spree. By confirming these sentences Saudi Arabias authorities have displayed their ruthless commitment to the use of ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, says Amnesty International. These brutal executions are the latest act in the Saudi Arabian authorities ongoing persecution of the Shia minority. The death penalty is being deployed as a political weapon to punish them for daring to protest against their treatment ...

Tehran, January 2, The Iran ProjectThe execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a leading Shia cleric and a prominent critic of the Riyadh regime, along with 46 others by the Saudi Arabia government on Saturday morning, sparked angry reactions from Iran's high rankings clerics who expressed condemnations in strongest possible terms. Releasing a statement ...

The figures on capital punishment coming out of Riyadh are staggering: there have been more than 150 people already executed in the kingdom in 2015, far more than in years past, according to Amnesty International. This year has seen 151 individuals put todeath inSaudi Arabia, and there are more tocome, Amnesty reported onMonday. The usual annual ...

On average, one person every two days was put to death in kingdom, says new report, with figures for 2015 already ahead of those for whole of last year Saudi Arabia has executed at least 175 people over the last 12 months, on average one person every two days, according to a report released on Tuesday by Amnesty International. The report, Killing ...

[caption id="attachment_114986" align="alignright" width="191"] This file photo shows the beheading of a man in Saudi Arabia.[/caption] Saudi Arabia has beheaded a Syrian national after sentencing him to death on charges related to drug trafficking. The convicted Syrian, identified as Firas Mohammed al-Kor, was beheaded on Wednesday in the northwestern ...

[caption id="attachment_114986" align="alignright" width="180"] This file photo shows the beheading of a man in Saudi Arabia.[/caption] Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has carried out an unprecedented number of executions since the start of the year. The Britain-based rights group released the reporton Tuesday. "The current rate has ...