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    Khashoggi's sons forgive Saudi killers, sparing 5 execution

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The family of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi announced Friday they have forgiven his Saudi killers, giving legal reprieve to the five government agents who'd been sentenced to death for an operation that cast a cloud of suspicion over the kingdom's crown prince.

    “We, the sons of the martyr Jamal Khashoggi, announce that we forgive those who killed our father as we seek reward from God Almighty,” wrote one of his sons, Salah Khashoggi, on Twitter.

    Salah Khashoggi, who lives in Saudi Arabia and has received financial compensation from the royal court for his father's killing, explained that forgiveness was extended to the killers during the last nights of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in line with Islamic tradition to offer pardons in cases allowed by Islamic law.

    The announcement was largely expected because the trial in Saudi Arabia left the door open for reprieve by ruling in December that the killing was not premeditated. That finding was in line with the government’s official explanation of Khashoggi's slaying that he was killed accidentally in a brawl by agents trying to forcibly return him to Saudi Arabia.

    Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia's crown prince in columns for the Washington Post. He'd been living in exile in the United States for about a year as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman oversaw a crackdown in Saudi Arabia on human rights activists, writers and critics of his devastating war in Yemen.

    In October 2017, a team of 15 Saudi agents was dispatched to Turkey to meet Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul for what he thought was an appointment to pick up documents needed to wed his Turkish fiance. The group included a forensic doctor, intelligence and security officers and individuals who worked for the crown prince’s office.

    Turkish officials allege Khashoggi was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw. The body has not been found. Turkey, a rival of Saudi Arabia, apparently had the Saudi Consulate bugged and has shared audio of the killing with the CIA, among others.

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    Indonesian Maid Spared from Saudi Execution after $1 Million Payment

    Jakarta. An Indonesian migrant worker on death row for murder conviction in Saudi Arabia was released after she paid Rp 15.5 billion ($1 million) in blood money to the kinfolk of the victim.

    Etty binti Toyib arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, Banten on Monday afternoon after spending 18 years in a Saudi prison. Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah welcomed her at the airport.

    “I’m so happy to finally arrive in Indonesia. It was a very unpleasant experience to be locked up for 18 years and I really miss Indonesia,” Etty told reporters.

    She was convicted in 2001 of poisoning her Saudi employer Faisal al-Ghamdi and sentenced to death.

    But Etty denied any wrongdoing when she spoke to Indonesian journalists and said she was convicted because of “miscommunication”.

    A group of Indonesian Muslim organizations and individuals have helped her collect the compensation fund, or diyya in Islamic terms.

    “As a government representative, I would like to thank the communities and the Nahdlatul Ulama in particular for their contribution that has made Etty’s release possible," Minister Ida said.

    Ida said Etty cannot directly return to her hometown of Majalengka, West Java. She must first spend 14 days at a quarantine facility in Jakarta to follow the government health protocol related to the Covid-19 outbreak.

    Indonesian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Agus Maftuh Abegebriel said earlier it took intense negotiations with the Saudi government and the family of the employer before they finally agreed to accept financial compensation and spare Etty from execution.

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    Saudi scraps death sentences over Khashoggi murder, jails 8

    A Saudi court on Monday overturned five death sentences over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in a final ruling that was condemned by his fiancee and slammed by a UN expert as a "parody of justice".

    Eight unnamed defendants were handed jail terms of between seven and 20 years in a verdict that comes after Khashoggi's sons "pardoned" the killers in May, paving the way for a less severe punishment.

    The court ruling underscores Saudi efforts to draw a line under the October 2018 murder as the kingdom seeks to reboot its international image ahead of November's G20 summit in Riyadh.

    "Five convicts were sentenced to 20 years in prison... one person was sentenced to 10 years and two others to seven years," the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing a spokesman for the public prosecutor.

    None of the defendants were named in what was described as the final court ruling on the murder, which triggered an international outcry and tarnished the global reputation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

    Hatice Cengiz, the Turkish fiancee of the slain journalist, branded the verdict a "farce".

    "The ruling handed down today in Saudi Arabia again makes a complete mockery of justice," Cengiz said on Twitter.

    Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, slammed the ruling as "one more act today in this parody of justice".

    "These verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy," Callamard wrote on Twitter. "They came at the end of a process which was neither fair, nor just, or transparent."

    Khashoggi -- a royal family insider turned critic -- was killed and dismembered at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, in a case that tarnished the reputation of the de facto ruler Prince Mohammed.

    A critic of the crown prince, the 59-year-old Khashoggi was strangled and his body cut into pieces by a 15-man Saudi squad inside the consulate, according to Turkish officials. His remains have not been found.

    Riyadh has described the murder as a "rogue" operation, but both the CIA and a UN special envoy have directly linked Prince Mohammed to the killing, a charge the kingdom vehemently denies.


    - 'Last nail in coffin' -

    Callamard also criticised the fact that "high-level officials" behind the murder have "walked free from the start", and that Prince Mohammed has remained protected against "any kind of meaningful scrutiny".

    In December, a Saudi court exonerated two of the crown prince's top aides over the murder -- deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Assiri and the royal court's media czar Saud al-Qahtani.

    Both aides were part of Prince Mohammed's tight-knit inner circle and were formally sacked over the killing.

    "Since the beginning, there was never any intent to hold those responsible to account, only repeated attempts to cover it up," Ines Osman, director of the Geneva-based MENA Rights Group, told AFP.

    "This verdict is the last nail in the coffin, saying 'the case is now closed'."

    Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders also condemned the verdict, with its secretary-general Christophe Deloire telling AFP the opaque trial "did not respect the elementary principles of justice".

    The closed-door trial of 11 suspects ended in December with five unnamed people sentenced to death and three others handed jail terms totalling 24 years over the killing.

    But the family's pardon paved the way for Monday's reduced sentences, including clemency for the five people on death row.

    The Washington Post reported last year that Khashoggi's children, including his son Salah, had received multi-million-dollar homes and were being paid thousands of dollars per month by authorities.

    Salah rejected the report, denying discussing a financial settlement with Saudi Arabia's authoritarian rulers.

    In July, 20 Saudi suspects including Assiri and Qahtani went on trial in absentia in Turkey.

    The former top aides were formally charged in March with "instigating the deliberate and monstrous killing, causing torment".

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    Two more terrorists get death for Al-Ahsa attack

    RIYADH — A special criminal court in Riyadh sentenced on Wednesday two terrorists to death in connection with the shooting attack in the Al-Dalwah village in the eastern city of Al-Ahsa. They were part of a 12-member terror cell that carried out attacks on unarmed villagers in Al-Ahsa on Nov. 3, 2014.

    The court had pronounced verdicts against 10 of them in their presence last Wednesday while the two were not present at the time in the court. The court had handed the death penalty to seven defendants in the case while three others were sentenced to 25-year jail terms each. The court awarded death penalties, including execution and crucifixion, to the first four defendants and the death penalty for defendants No. 6, 7, and 12. The defendants No. 8, 10, and 11 were sentenced to 25-year jail terms, starting from the date of their detention.

    Members of the terrorist cell were convicted for their armed attack on the Al-Dalwah village on Muharram 10, 1436, killing eight people including three children, and injuring 12 villagers including seven children.

    Subsequent to last week’s verdict, the court on Wednesday found guilty of the charges framed against the defendants No. 5 and 9 by the Public Prosecution and sentenced them to death.

    The charges against the two convicts included their association with the first, second, and third defendants in the armed attack on a group of unarmed citizens with the intention of killing them. They also assisted the perpetrators by providing ammunition for the weapons used by the terrorists.

    They were also found committing the crimes of embracing the Takfeeri ideology of Kharijites contrary to the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah permitting bloodletting and armed attack against Muslims, in addition to their fight against God and His Messenger by pursuing sedition on earth.

    The defendant No. 5 was also found guilty of pledging allegiance to the leader of the terrorist organization, Daesh (the so-called IS), and to the first accused as the emir of the terrorist organization within the Kingdom. He was also convicted of giving shelter to the first and second defendants in his home, using a private car for their movement, receiving financial support from the leader of the terrorist cell, and carrying out his orders.

    The defendant No. 9 was convicted of allotting his rest house to shelter and serve the members of the terrorist cell and securing weapons and ammunition for them. The convict had gone out to Syria to join Daesh, communicated with members and Daesh inside and outside the Kingdom, and was involved in financing terrorist acts.

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    Appeals court upholds death penalty of ‘Dammam kidnapper’

    An appeals court in the Eastern Province on Monday upheld the verdict issued by a criminal court in Dammam in September 2020, awarding the death penalty to a woman, known in the media as “Dammam kidnapper,” and jail terms for 3 other defendants.

    The woman, the main defendant, was convicted of kidnapping newborns from Dammam 3 decades ago. The court also sentenced the 2nd defendant to 1 1/2 years in prison and SR20,000 in fine while the 3rd defendant, a Yemeni man, was awarded 25 1/2 years of jail in the case. The court also handed 1-year imprisonment and imposed a fine amounting to SR5,000 on the 4th defendant.

    The criminal court found the Saudi woman who had kidnapped 2 boys from a hospital in Dammam in the 1990s guilty. She raised the abducted children as her own and reportedly told them they were born out of wedlock. Police investigations into the babies’ disappearance failed to yield results until suspicions about the identity of the 2 boys, who are now in their 20s, rose after she tried to apply for their identification cards. The mystery of the missing of the 2 babies was unraveled 2 years ago when the woman submitted applications to obtain identification documents for the two men. Subsequently, the authorities conducted the required medical and technical examinations, and the results proved no biological relationship between her and them and their lineage to other Saudi families who had previously reported the abduction of their children.

    The Public Prosecution spokesman said that their investigation team carried out 247 procedures in the case, and these included 21 investigation sessions with 21 defendants and witnesses, and filed charges against defendants including 4 convicts while the 5th defendant is absconding after escaping to outside the Kingdom. The Public Prosecution sought the help of Interpol to bring back the culprit.

    (source: Saudi Gazette)
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    Saudi Arabia: Father of political prisoner Ali al-Nimr briefly detained

    Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, described by his lawyer as 'moderate' and a 'prominent intellectual', was released on Friday

    Middle East Eye

    Saudi Arabia on Wednesday detained the father of Ali al-Nimr, a protestor who was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to death in 2014.

    Nimr's death sentence was commuted earlier this month to 10 years in jail, following an international outcry from human rights groups. He has been in prison since 2012.

    Taha al-Hajji, a lawyer for the Nimr family, told Middle East Eye that Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr was arrested on Wednesday following a raid on his home in the Eastern Province town of Awamiyah, home to a predominantly Shia population and where pro-democracy protests erupted following the Arab Spring.

    There had been no explanation given for the raid. Hajji said electronic equipment was also seized, but no-one else from the household was arrested. "So far, no one knows the reason for the arrest. Usually, the security forces do not say so," the lawyer said.

    He later said Nimr had been released on Friday afternoon.

    Hajji pointed out that Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr was a "prominent intellectual" who had always maintained a "moderate" discourse with regards to the Saudi government, even after they executed his brother, the prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, in 2016.

    "He made a lot of sacrifices and was patient despite the pain suffered during the past nine years. He was imprisoned more than once and shot," he explained.

    "The Saudi government always takes revenge on those who cause it harm or embarrassment."

    In early February, Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher had their death sentences commuted to 10 years in prison.

    Nimr, Marhoon and Zaher had been arrested as minors in 2012 on terrorism-related charges and sentenced to death after they took part in anti-government protests during the Arab Spring uprising.

    According to the human rights organisation Reprieve, the move was the result of a decree issued last year ending the execution of minors in the kingdom.

    Tweeting about the detention, Lina al-Hathloul - sister of the recently freed women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul - said the move was evidence of the two-faced approach to human rights by the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

    "After overturning the death penalty against Ali al-Nimr (who was arrested as a minor), Saudi authorities arrested his father," she wrote.

    "MBS new policy : 1 concession => 2 crimes. Don’t be fooled by MBS, he is still the criminal he was two years ago."

    Decree ends death penalty for minors

    The kingdom's official ruler King Salman issued a royal decree in April 2020 ending the death sentence for crimes committed as a minor, ordering the maximum sentence to instead be 10 years in a juvenile detention facility.

    The 2016 execution of Ali's uncle Nimr al-Nimr, along with 46 others charged with terrorism, provoked major demonstrations across the globe and the burning of the Saudi embassy in Iran.

    The rate of execution in the kingdom has doubled since 2015, when King Salman succeeded to the throne in January following the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah.

    According to Reprieve, Saudi Arabia carried out at least 800 executions during the first five years of King Salman's rule. The kingdom is currently the world's third biggest executioner, following China and Iran, according to an annual report by Amnesty.

    The country's imprisonment of women's rights activists such as Loujain al-Hathloul and the killing of critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 have further provoked scrutiny of the kingdom's rights record.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/s...ather-detained

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    Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi man executed for crimes committed as a minor

    Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences that rights groups say he committed while aged 17, despite the kingdom's assurance that it had abolished the death penalty for minors.
    Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested in 2015 for protest-related offences.
    Saudi authorities say he was charged with forming a terror cell and trying to carry out an armed revolt.
    But rights groups had called for a stop to his execution, saying his trial had been unfair.

    Amnesty International and Reprieve, an anti-death penalty charity, say 26-year-old al-Darwish had already recanted his confession, which was allegedly made after he was tortured. Saudi authorities have not publicly commented on the accusation.
    According to Reuters news agency, al-Darwish's charges included "seeking to disturb security by rioting" and "sowing discord".
    Evidence against him included a picture "offensive to the security forces", and his participation in over 10 "riot" gatherings in 2011 and 2012.

    The Saudi interior ministry said al-Darwish had also attempted to kill local security forces, state media reported. However court documents did not specify the dates of any of his offences, according to Reuters.
    Reprieve said al-Darwish's family received no warning about the execution in advance, and only learned about it online.
    "How can they execute a boy because of a photograph on his phone?," his family said in a statement, published by Reprieve. "Since his arrest, we have known nothing but pain. It is a living death for the whole family."
    The Saudi interior ministry, cited by state news agency SPA, said al-Darwish was executed in Dammam, a city in the oil-rich Eastern Province.

    Saudi authorities last year said that they would no longer hand out death sentences to people who committed crimes while they were minors, and instead only apply a maximum 10-year jail sentence.
    The royal decree said the new law would be applied retroactively to those awaiting execution.
    Amnesty and Reprieve say al-Darwish's case should have been reviewed under the new law. They and other groups have repeatedly raised concerns about the implementation of this reform.
    The UK's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, also raised the issue of justice reform during a visit to Riyadh last month, according to the UK foreign office.
    Earlier this year, the Saudi Human Rights Commission said the kingdom had "drastically" reduced the number of people it put to death in 2020.
    However, Reprieve said Saudi Arabia had now executed the same number of people in the first half of 2021 as it did in the whole of 2020.

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    Saudi Arabia Executes ISIS Member in Jazan

    Asharq Al-Awsat

    The Saudi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday that it had carried out the death penalty against a member of the ISIS terror group in Jazan city.

    In a statement, it identified the individual as Saudi national Mohammed bin Ibrahim bin Ali al-Rifai. It said he had adopted takfiri ideology, which violates Islamic values.

    He had consequently declared his allegiance to ISIS and its terrorist practices and sought to fulfill the group’s agenda.

    He had at one point attacked a bank in Jazan city, opening fire at the people inside, leaving two dead and two wounded. Others were held hostage at the scene.

    The perpetrator resisted arrest and opened fire at the security forces.

    He was eventually arrested and charged. He was referred to the specialized court where he was convicted and sentenced to death.

    The Interior Ministry underscored the government’s keenness on consolidating security and pursuing justice against everyone who violates the country’s security and stability and commits terrorist acts.

    https://english.aawsat.com/home/arti...s-member-jazan

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    Saudi executed for shooting at police

    Convict was charged with links to terrorists, dealing in drugs and committing robberies

    By Ramadan Al Sherbini
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    A Saudi man was executed after being convicted of shooting at security men, possessing weapons, training in using them with the aim of disrupting security, and dealing in drugs, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.

    The convict, identified as Meki bin Kadhem, was also found guilty of committing several robberies, vandalising public properties and having links with wanted terrorists, the ministry added in a statement.

    The man was involved in firing at Saudi security men in two separate incidents with the intention of killing them, according to the ministry.

    He was arrested and later convicted on these charges and given a death sentence.

    The verdict was upheld by the appeals and supreme court and approved by a royal order, the ministry said.

    The convict was executed on Monday in Dammam in the Eastern Province.

    The ministry did not say when the shootings and arrest took place.

    Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty against convicts in cases of murder as well as drug smuggling and trafficking.

    https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saud...ice-1.83394754

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    Man executed for burning wife to death

    His death sentence was upheld by top court and approved by royal order

    By Ramadan Al Sherbini
    Gulf News

    Saudi authorities had executed a citizen after he was convicted of brutally beating and burning his wife to death.

    The convict, identified as Udah bin Mohammed, was later arrested and a court sentenced him to death, the Interior Ministry said.

    The ruling was upheld by the appeals and supreme courts and approved by a royal order and family of the victim, the ministry added in a statement.

    The convict was executed on Wednesday in the governorate of Qunfudh in the Mecca region.

    The cause of the murder or its date was not given.

    Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty against convicts in cases of murder as well as drug smuggling and trafficking.

    https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saud....1636630414515

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