Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes, most of them minority Shiites

CNBC ^ | 04-23-2019 | AP

[NRx]

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others.

The executions were likely to stoke further regional and sectarian tensions between rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Saudi dissident Ali Al-Ahmed, who runs the Gulf Institute in Washington, identified 34 of those executed as Shiites based on the names announced by the Interior Ministry.

“This is the largest mass execution of Shiites in the kingdom’s history,” he said.

Amnesty International also confirmed the majority of those executed were Shiite men. The rights group said they were convicted “after sham trials” that relied on confessions extracted through torture.

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 people for terrorism-related crimes in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi authorities since 1980.

Among those executed three years ago were four Shiites, including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death sparked protests from Pakistan to Iran and the ransacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Saudi-Iran ties have not recovered and the embassy remains shuttered.

[wastedyears]

Who the hell cares? The only good saracen is a dead one.

[joma89]

Muslims killing muslims.

JoMa

[Joe Boucher]

hey outsider,
I would love to sit back with a big bag of pop corn and watch a knockdown drag out war between Saudi Arabia and iran.
That would be a beautiful thing.
Remember, American troops use to be stationed in Saudi Arabia after we built massive military bases there.
Didn’t want us unclean Americans there.
Oh well.

[bgill]

Religion of pieces.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The Sows should behead every muzzard they can get their hands on, then behead themselves.

[Svartalfiar]

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 people for terrorism-related crimes in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi authorities since 1980. ... Which was the largest mass execution since this other date, which was the largest mass execution since that date... etc etc.

They sure dont teach very well sentance constructuration in writing skool no more!