40 minors face death sentence in Saudi Arabia

SANAA, Jun. 17 (YPA) – Prisoners of Conscience account on Twitter, which is concerned with news of detainees in Saudi Arabia revealed that 40 minors face death sentence  for participating in the 2011 Qatif protests despite Riyadh authorities’ pledge to stop the death penalty against minors.

The relatives of the detainees called on the British Foreign Secretary to intervene urgently during his visit to Riyadh to stop the death penalty against minors.

A Saudi national , Abdullah al-Hawiti is facing death sentence in the kingdom and threatened to be executed despite his age of no more than 14, Human Rights Watch said, describing his trial as a crime.

Amnesty International has condemned the  execution of Mustafa bin Hashim bin Isa al-Darwish by the Saudi authorities despite appeals by several organizations to dissuade it.

In April 2020, the Kingdom announced that its courts would stop imposing the death penalty on persons convicted of crimes committed when they were under the age of 18, indicating that they would instead be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment and serve the sentence in a juvenile prison.

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