Torture and unfair trials of 11 Shia detainees from Qatif

Activists circulated on social media information about the reality of torture, unfair trials and unfair sentences against 11 young men from Umm al-Hamam town in Qatif, in measures that reflect the continuity of the exclusionary and arbitrary policies pursued by the Saudi authorities against the Shia residents of the country.
The young men were arbitrarily arrested on charges of possession of weapons a year and a half ago, then were sentenced to death and imprisonment despite the lack of sufficient evidence to condemn the detainees, in a continuous effort by the authorities to besiege the people of Qatif and tighten the screws on them.
Private sources provided details about the young men and their grievances by taking them to Saudi prisons and exposing them and their families to severe torture without proving that they possessed weapons or committed any criminal acts, and then issued unfair prison and death sentences against them, as confessions were extracted by force at gunpoint.
The sources revealed detailed information about the fate of the eleven detainees, including the young detainee, Mortada Ahmed Al-Marhoon, who is among the 11 Qatif youths whom the Saudi government is trying to prove its arbitrary accusation against them of possessing weapons.