Prominent advocacy group, Human Rights Watch has warned about the imminent execution of 14 members of the Shia community in Saudi Arabia.
The HRW says that the kingdom’s authorities transferred the 14 men from Dammam to Riyadh in mid-July and kept some of them in solitary confinement without any explanations. They’ve had no contact with the outside world since then. The men who are from the city of Qatif in the Shia-majority Eastern Province have all been convicted for protest-related offences. The Saudi Supreme Court upheld their conviction based on confessions they later withdrew saying they were obtained under torture. According to the HRW, Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court has rejected all torture allegations without investigating them.
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