Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions. This later led to them being convicted to death in a secretive counterterrorism court.
Source/Credit: Middle East Eye
By MEE Staff | August 6, 2017
Saudi Arabia defended its decision to execute more than a dozen Shia activists involved in demonstrations during the 2011 and 2012 Arab Spring revolts.
In a rare statement, the Saudi authorities said it had sentenced the activists to death based on a fair trial.
Human-rights activists claim that some of the sentenced men were tortured and forced into making false confessions. This later led to them being convicted to death in a secretive counterterrorism court.
The group included a teenager who was arrested at the airport before boarding a flight to visit a university in Michigan, and a youth who is half-deaf and nearly blind, activists said.
Shias in the Sunni-majority kingdom have long complained of discrimination and harassment by authorities.
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