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Saudi Arabia executes 47 people as'terrorists'
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2 January 2016: Saudi Arabia executes 47 people as
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Yesterday, Saudi Arabian officials said they have
executed 47 people whom courts convicted as
terrorists.
Officials said the executions were not done in public. Saudi
cleric Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz
al-Sheikh in justifying the executions cited Saudi Arabia's
interpretation of Sharia Law and said
the executions prevented the accused from committing further
crime, calling it a form of "mercy".
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File photo of Dira
Square, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where public
executions are carried out under Sharia Law;
Saudi officials said the 47 people executed were not executed
publicly, but rather within prisons.
Image: Luke Richard Thompson.
Some of those executed were
reportedly Al-Qaeda militants behind terrorist
attacks. Before the
executions, an Al-Qaeda branch from Yemen threatened
Saudi authorities with violence if theyexecuted their members.
Among those executed was a Shia Muslim cleric
who criticized both the royal family of Saudi
Arabia and that of Bahrain; he
condemned Bahrain's suppression of protests with Saudi aid.
He
reportedly avoided advocating violence. He was convicted of
causing violence against
authorities, and a Saudi court rejected his appeal of his
conviction this past year. His execution
led to condemnation from Iranian officials, who had previously
said it "would cost Saudi Arabia
dearly".
When news broke the 47 were to be executed, in November,
regional Amnesty
International director James Lynch said Saudi Arabia was
settling "political scores" under "the
guise of counter-terrorism."
The organization said at least 150 people have been executed in
Saudi Arabia in 2015, while
only 90 were executed a year ago in 2014.
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