Saudi Boy Gets Crucifixion for Railing Against Kingdom


“No one should have to go through the ordeal Ali has suffered – torture, forced ‘confession,’ and an unfair, secret trial process, resulting in a sentence of death by ‘crucifixion,’” exclaimed Maya Foa, the director of the death penalty team at Reprieve. “But worse still, Ali was a vulnerable 17 year old child when he was arrested and this ordeal began. His execution – based apparently on the authorities’ dislike for his uncle, and his involvement in anti-government protests – would violate international law and the most basic standards of decency. It must be stopped.”

However, human rights groups believe the case against him cuts much deeper:

The case against Ali appears to be based on his familial connection to Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a 53-year old critic of the Saudi regime and a prominent religious leader in the Kingdom, who is his uncle. Mr Al Nimr was sentenced to death by crucifixion on charges including “insulting the King” and delivering religious sermons that “disrupt national unity”. This week, it emerged that the authorities plan to execute Ali’s uncle on Thursday (17 September) sparking fears that his nephew will also be killed.

“These accusations are untrue and Saudi officials are deliberately issuing this sentence following the sentence of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr,” declared his father. “My son has never had a lawyer during his trial and interrogation and this sentence against him was a predefined process.”

Source: Breitbart

Saudi Arabia typically executes at least two people every other day. As of August 25, 102 people died at the hands of Islamic executioners, which puts the total at 174 for the past 12 months. The government faced massive backlash when a video emerged in January of a brutal public beheading of a woman in Mecca. Their use of capital punishment drew comparisons to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

“When we do kill in Saudi Arabia, we do it as a decision made by a court,” an Interior Ministry spokesman explained. “The killing is a decision, I mean it is not based on arbitrary choices, to kill this and not to kill this. When you kill somebody without legitimate basis, without justice system, without court, that is still a crime whether you behead them or kill with a gun.”
Beheading is so much for visual and traditional, don’t you know…

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