{"id":6617,"date":"2018-10-31T17:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6617-un-rights-experts-urge-riyadh-to-halt-imminent-executions\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:48:51","slug":"un-rights-experts-urge-riyadh-to-halt-imminent-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6617-un-rights-experts-urge-riyadh-to-halt-imminent-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rights experts urge Riyadh to halt imminent executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUnited Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to halt the imminent execution of six men sentenced to death for activities related to the Shia rights protests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>HUnited Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to halt the imminent execution of six men sentenced to death for activities related to the Shia rights protests.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>They said that since the Saudis were all under age 18 at the time, imposing the death penalty on them would violate international law, including a treaty protecting children ratified by the kingdom.<\/h4>\n<h4>There has also been growing international criticism of the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s air strikes in Yemen that have caused heavy civilian casualties including children.<\/h4>\n<h4>The charges against the six men are based on \u201ccriminalization of the exercise of fundamental rights, including freedom of assembly and expression\u201d, the UN experts said in a joint statement which gave scant details.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThey were allegedly tortured and ill-treated, forced to confess, denied adequate legal assistance during trial and never had access to an effective complaint mechanism,\u201d it added.<\/h4>\n<h4>The men were tried in a Riyadh specialized court that handles terrorism-related issues and there is no known appeals process, a UN human rights official said.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUnited Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to halt the imminent execution of six men sentenced to death for activities related to the Shia rights protests.\u00a0 \u00a0 HUnited Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to halt the imminent execution of six men sentenced to death for activities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,38,79,172],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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