Critical situation of Shiite Muslims in Saudi Arabia as nine minors at risk of execution

Saudi Arabia said on February 28, 2014 in a report submitted to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations stated the death penalty falls for minors, and it is not carried out on the children at all, but Saudi Arabia has executed 47 people, including four minors.

Saudi Arabia said on February 28, 2014 in a report submitted to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations stated the death penalty falls for minors, and it is not carried out on the children at all, but Saudi Arabia has executed 47 people, including four minors.

The execution of January 2016, raised denunciations succession, as expressed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon‘s dismay, it was considered that the trials – referring to the execution of Sheikh Nimr- raised serious concerns about the nature of the charges and the fairness of the trial.

ESOHR documented the existence of nine minors that are threatened currently on death row, they are: Ali al-Nimir, Abdullah alZaher, Dawood al-Marhoon, Hussein Ali alBata, Saeed Mohammed alSkafi , Salman Amin al-Koraysh, Mojtaba alSuwaiket, Abdullah Salman Al Surih, Hassan Abdul Wahab Al Jazer.

ESOHR documented cases of some of them in previous reports, some of whom had been tortured to extract confessions, as practiced with each deception and coercion methods, and some of the confessions recorded them had been written by interrogators handwriting and coerced into signing, and the trials lacked to the conditions of a fair trial.