Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed two citizens convicted of joining a terrorist cell to target security forces, the Interior Ministry said.
The ministry identified the men as Ali bin Omar bin Mousa Al Ahmari and Ibrahim bin Ali bin Maraee Haroubi, and said they were executed in Makkah.
They were found to have joined a terrorist cell, supplied weapons and ammunition, and tracked and photographed security sites and headquarters in the kingdom with the aim of targeting them and killing security forces, it said.
Saudi authorities said one of the men, Haroubi, had been involved in making explosives designed to undermine domestic security and had planned to carry out a suicide attack to target security sites and forces.
More than 1,000 death sentences have been carried out since King Salman assumed de facto power in 2015, according to a report published earlier this year by Reprieve and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR).
