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    Saudi seeks death penalty for 16 after Shia unrest

    RIYADH: Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia are seeking the death penalty for 16 people for alleged “terrorist” offences in a Shia community in the kingdom’s east, reports said on Thursday.

    A total of two dozen people are accused in the case, including three who were on a list of 23 suspects wanted after pro-reform protests that began in early 2011 in eastern Saudi Arabia.

    Saudi media said the “terrorist cell” was based in the Shia community of Awamiya.

    Most of the Sunni-dominated kingdom’s Shia live in the east, and have complained of marginalisation.

    The interior ministry has reported periodic gun battles and arrests in Awamiya, near Dammam on the Gulf coast, since it issued the list of suspects in January 2012.

    Charges against the 16 accused include murder and wounding of security personnel, rebellion, robbery and using grenades, newspapers reported.

    The prominent Makkah and Okaz dailies said prosecutors want the bodies of two of the accused publicly displayed on poles after death.

    The Berlin-based European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights says seven people have been sentenced to death in connection with Shia unrest since 2011.

    It says three of them were under the age of 18 at the time of their detention, and they have exhausted all legal appeals after being sentenced to death.

    Their fate rests with King Salman who, activists say, must give final approval before death sentences are carried out.

    The case of one Shia youth, Ali al-Nimr, has raised particular international concern.

    During a visit to Riyadh this month, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters he “called for clemency” for Ali al-Nimr.

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/977602/s...r-shia-unrest/

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    Executions in Saudi Arabia at a 20-year peak - Amnesty

    DUBAI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has executed at least 151 people this year, the most since 1995 and far above the annual figure in recent years which rarely exceeded 90, Amnesty International said on Monday.

    No one at Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry was immediately available to comment on the surge in the numbers of executions but diplomats have speculated it may be because more judges have been appointed, allowing a backlog of appeal cases to be heard.

    Political analysts say it might also reflect a tough response to wars and political turbulence in the region.

    The kingdom is in the top five countries for executing people, rights groups say. It ranked No. 3 in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.

    The same five countries executed the most prisoners in the first six months of 2015, Amnesty said in July.

    The last time Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 people in a single year was when 192 executions were recorded in 1995, an Amnesty statement said.

    Defenders of the Saudi death penalty say beheadings, usually with a single sword stroke, are at least as humane as lethal injections used in the United States. They deplore any comparison between its executions of convicted criminals and Islamic State's extra-judicial killings of hostages.

    Amnesty said the death penalty is disproportionately used against foreigners in Saudi Arabia. Of the 63 people executed this year for drug-related charges, 45 were foreigners. The total number of foreigners executed so far this year is 71.

    http://www.trust.org/item/20151109192232-tlirc

    http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.685201

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    Saudi Arabian court sentences Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy

    A court sentenced him to four years in prison and 800 lashes but after appeal another judge passed a death sentence.

    A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday.

    Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the country's religious police in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, and then rearrested and tried in early 2014.

    The verdict of that court sentenced him to four years in prison and 800 lashes but after appeal another judge passed a death sentence on Fayadh three days ago, said Coogle.

    "I have read the trial documents from the lower court verdict in 2014 and another one from 17 November. It is very clear he has been sentenced to death for apostasy," Coogle said.

    Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law and its judges are clerics from the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.

    In the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy incur the death penalty.

    In January liberal writer Raif Badawi was flogged 50 times after his sentencing to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for blasphemy last year, prompting an international outcry. Badawi remains in prison, but diplomats say he is unlikely to be flogged again.

    Saudi judges have extensive scope to impose sentences according to their own interpretation of Sharia law without reference to any previous cases. After a case has been heard by lower courts, appeals courts and the supreme court, a convicted defendant can be pardoned by King Salman.

    Fayadh's conviction was based on evidence from a prosecution witness who claimed to have heard him cursing God, Islam's Prophet Mohammad and Saudi Arabia, and the contents of a poetry book he had written years earlier.

    The case went to the Saudi appeals court and was then returned to the lower court, where a different judge on November 17 increased the sentence to death.

    The second judge ruled defence witnesses who had challenged the prosecution witness' testimony ineligible.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6742161.html

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    Saudi executes Pakistani heroin smuggler – Sri Lankan Maid wins reprieve from death by stoning in Saudi

    COLOMBO: Saudi authorities have agreed to retry a Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, her country’s deputy foreign minister said yesterday. Harsha de Silva told parliament in Colombo the government had secured a fresh trial for the woman after Sri Lankan diplomats visited her in a Saudi jail over the weekend. “Through our intervention, they (Saudi authorities) have agreed to reopen the case,” de Silva told parliament.

    “This can be considered a big victory. We will provide her with legal counsel,” he added, without elaborating on the grounds for a retrial. The woman, a 45-year-old married mother of two who has not been named, was convicted of adultery in August. She was sentenced to death by stoning, while an unmarried Sri Lankan man convicted alongside her was sentenced to 100 lashes. Sri Lankan lawmakers from all parties have united in urging the government to secure clemency for the woman and a pardon for the man.

    Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met the Saudi envoy to Colombo last week and expressed concern over the case, which has sparked calls for a ban on Sri Lankan women travelling to Saudi Arabia for domestic work. There were similar calls in 2013 when Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan woman convicted of killing a baby in her care in 2005, when she was 17 years old. Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority on Monday appealed to Saudi King Salman to intervene and pardon the couple. Under the conservative kingdom’s strict Islamic sharia legal code, murder, armed robbery, rape, adultery, drug trafficking and apostasy are all punishable by death.

    Pakistani executed

    In another development, Saudi Arabia yesterday executed a convicted Pakistani heroin smuggler, adding to a toll which rights group Amnesty International says is the kingdom’s highest in two decades. The ministry of interior said Khan Iqbal was put to death in the holy city of Makkah for smuggling a large amount of heroin in his intestines. According to AFP tallies, Iqbal is the 149th local or foreigner put to death this year, against 87 for all of 2014. London-based Amnesty says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year is the highest since 192 people were put to death in 1995.

    The toll has rarely exceeded 90 annually in recent years, it said. Reasons for the surge are unclear. Over the last few weeks, however, there has been a marked drop in executions, all of which are reported by the official Saudi Press Agency. Rights experts have raised concerns about the fairness of trials in the kingdom and say the death penalty should not be applied in drug cases. Last month the European Union issued a statement saying a number of people had been put to death recently in Saudi Arabia after convictions for drug trafficking. “The European Union is opposed to capital punishment in all cases and without exception,” it said.- Agencies

    http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/...ning-in-saudi/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Saudi put to death in 151st execution of the year

    RIYADH: A Saudi convicted of murder was executed on Tuesday, in the 151st death sentence carried out this year in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

    Sultan al-Dosari was executed in the eastern province of Ihsa after his conviction for stabbing to death another man, the interior ministry said.

    According to AFP tallies, his case brings to 151 the number of locals and foreigners put to death this year, against 87 for all of 2014.

    Amnesty International says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year is the highest for two decades, since 192 people were put to death in 1995.

    The toll has rarely exceeded 90 annually in recent years, it said.

    Reasons for the surge are unclear.

    Over the past few weeks, however, there has been a marked drop in executions, all of which are reported by the official Saudi Press Agency

    Saudi executions are usually carried out by beheading with a sword.

    Rights experts have raised concerns about the fairness of trials in the kingdom, where the interior ministry says the death penalty is a deterrent to crime.

    Amnesty says Saudi Arabia had the world’s third-highest number of executions last year, after China and Iran.

    Under the kingdom’s strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1010413/...ution-of-year/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Abdullah al-Zaher: Saudi Arabia is about to behead a teenage boy for attending a protest aged 15

    Campaigners say Abdullah is the youngest in a group of juvenile offenders sentenced to death as part of a crackdown on political dissent

    Saudi Arabia is believed to be on the brink of executing a teenage boy who was arrested at the age of 15 for attending a protest.

    Campaign group Reprieve told The Independent Abdullah al-Zaher, who is now 19, was the youngest in a group of juvenile offenders put on death row as part of a ruthless crackdown on political dissent in the conservative kingdom.

    Previously held alongside fellow juvenile offender Ali al-Nimr, whose case sparked outrage around the world, Abdullah has now been moved to solitary confinement at a new facility and could be beheaded at any moment.

    In a last-ditch attempt to save their son’s life – and in spite of the danger of repercussions from the Saudi authorities – Abdullah’s parents have gone public with his story.
    Abdullah al-Zaher: Saudi Arabia is about to behead a teenage boy for attending a protest aged 15 | Middle East | News | The Independent


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    Saudi Arabia executes murder convict as annual toll hits 152

    A Saudi convicted of murder was executed on Thursday, bringing to 152 the number of death sentences carried out this year in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

    Saad Ben Mohamed al-Othman was executed in the eastern city of Dammam after his conviction for shooting and murdering a fellow Saudi during a disagreement, the interior ministry said.

    According to AFP tallies, his case brings to 152 the number of locals and foreigners put to death this year, against 87 for all of 2014.

    Amnesty International says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year is the highest for two decades, since 192 people were put to death in 1995.

    The toll has rarely exceeded 90 annually in recent years, it said.

    Reasons for the surge in executions, all of which are reported by the official Saudi Press Agency, are unclear. Saudi executions are usually carried out by beheading with a sword.

    Rights experts have raised concerns about the fairness of trials in the kingdom, where the interior ministry says the death penalty is a deterrent to crime.

    Amnesty says Saudi Arabia had the world’s third-highest number of executions last year, after China and Iran.

    Under the kingdom’s strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death

    http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015...toll-hits-152/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Saudi executes Filipino, 153rd death sentence in 2015

    RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a Filipino man convicted of murder, bringing to 153 the number of people put to death this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom.

    Joselito Lyda San was found guilty of killing Sudanese national Saleh Imam Ibrahim with a hammer following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency.

    He was executed in Riyadh on Tuesday, it said. According to AFP tallies, Saudi has executed 153 locals and foreigners this year, against 87 for all of 2014.

    Amnesty International says the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year is the highest for two decades, since 192 people were put to death in 1995.

    The toll has rarely exceeded 90 annually in recent years, it said. Saudi executions are usually carried out by beheading with a sword.

    Rights experts have raised concerns about the fairness of trials in the kingdom, where the interior ministry says the death penalty is a deterrent to crime.

    Amnesty says Saudi Arabia had the world’s third-highest number of executions last year, after China and Iran.

    Under the kingdom’s strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.--AFP

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