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Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, says Amnesty International.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese brutal executions are the latest act in the Saudi Arabian authorities\u2019 ongoing persecution of the Shia minority. The death penalty is being deployed as a political weapon to punish them for daring to protest against their treatment and to cow others into silence,\u201d said the group\u2019s director for research, Lynn Maalouf, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Maalouf made the remarks after Saudi Arabia executed four Shias in the kingdom\u2019s oil-rich Eastern Province over allegations of conducting terrorist activities.<\/p>\n
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