Saudi Court Convicts over 12 Pro-Democracy Activists to Death

Rasa - A Saudi regime Supreme Court reportedly sentenced over a dozen pro-democracy activists to death over their participation in anti-regime protests in 2011.

News ID: 429940

Date: 28 May 2017 - 18:40

RNA - Human rights sources said that the activists were tried at the criminal court which deals with terrorism-related cases while they were not able even to appoint lawyers, Al Ahed News reported.

The Lebanese media says some of the defendants were forced into false confessions through physical and psychological torture.

Mainly Shiite Qatif region in the kingdom’s Eastern Province has recently witnessed regime's crackdown.

Saudi forces started their brutal attack on Qatif's Awamiya town on May 10, using helicopter gunships and heavy weapons. Many civilians including a two-and-a-half year old boy, identified as Javad al-Daqer, were killed during the Attacks.

International rights bodies, including Amnesty International, repeatedly criticized Saudi Arabia for its grim human rights record, arguing that the number of executions in the country has dramatically risen in the last years.

To justify its deadly clampdown on its own people, the Saudi regime has accused Al-Awamiya people of being terrorist.

The Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia has been the scene of peaceful demonstrations since the start of a popular Islamic uprising in February 2011. Protesters have been demanding reforms, freedom of expression, the release of political prisoners, and an end to economic and religious discrimination against the oil-rich region.

The Saudi regime has responded to the protests with an iron fist with regime forces attacking civilians amid a repressive crackdown on dissent.

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