{"id":2170,"date":"2016-01-02T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T08:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/2170-breaking-news-saudi-arabia-executes-senior-shia-cleric-sheikh-al-nimr\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T08:18:53","slug":"breaking-news-saudi-arabia-executes-senior-shia-cleric-sheikh-al-nimr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/2170-breaking-news-saudi-arabia-executes-senior-shia-cleric-sheikh-al-nimr\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news.. Saudi Arabia executes senior Shia cleric &#8216;Sheikh al-Nimr"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">executing 47 people, including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Saudi Interior Ministry says it executes 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.<\/h4>\n<h4>Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, commonly referred to as Sheikh Nimr was an independent Shia Sheikh in al-Awamiyah, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.<\/h4>\n<h4>He is popular among youth and critical of the Saudi Arabian government during the 2011\u20132012 Saudi Arabian protests.<\/h4>\n<h4>It&#8217;s noteworthy that Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0executing 47 people, including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr \u00a0 Saudi Interior Ministry says it executes 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. 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