Saudi Arabia executes 37 people, crucifying one, for terror-related crimes

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Saudi Arabia executes 37 people, crucifying one, for terror-related crimes
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/middleeast/saudi-executions-terror-intl/index.html

Saudi Arabia has executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes, the kingdom's official news agency said Tuesday.

One of the convicts was crucified, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

"The death penalty was implemented on a number of criminals for adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt security as well as spreading chaos and provoking sectarian strife," SPA said in a tweet.

The statement listed the names of the 37 Saudi nationals who were executed in various parts of the country. Saudi Arabia has one of the highest death penalty rates in the world....

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Note, the Saudi current version of crucifixion happens after death, as a warning to others.

Saudi Arabia beheads 37 prisoners for terrorism crimes
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-executes-37-prisoners-terrorism-crimes-62573121

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens in a mass execution across the country for what it described as terrorism-related crimes, publicly pinning one of the bodies and its severed head to a pole as a warning to others.

It marked the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 2, 2016, when the kingdom executed 47 individuals in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi Arabia since 1980. Among those executed three years ago was prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death sparked protests from Pakistan to Iran and the ransacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Saudi-Iran ties have not recovered and the embassy remains shuttered....

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Five of the 37 'terrorists' tortured and beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay lovers, say confessions 'extracted by Bin Salman's torturers' in nation where homosexuality is punishable by death
    Saudi Arabia's interior ministry announced Tuesday it had executed 37 nationals
    One allegedly confessed to having gay relationships with four of his co-accused
    Court documents have revealed how many disputed their 'confessions' at trial
    After the executions one of the condemned was crucified and put on display

By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline
Published: 05:39 EDT, 27 April 2019 | Updated: 06:34 EDT, 27 April 2019

Five victims of a Saudi mass execution were gay lovers, according to a confession which appeared at their Sharia court trial. 

One of the 37 men beheaded on Tuesday allegedly admitted to having sex with four of his co-accused 'terrorists,' but many complained at trial their confessions were obtained through torture.

The Shia man's homosexual relationships appeared in lines alleging he confessed to hating the state and the Sunni sect, the court documents obtained by CNN showed.

Homosexuality is punishable by death in the Gulf state which adheres to Sharia law. ...

Daily Mail (U.K.)

Another story from RT:

Saudi Arabia beheads 37 people, mostly from Shia minority, puts body on display
Published time: 24 Apr, 2019 03:24 Edited time: 25 Apr, 2019 14:25

Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body of one of them on a pole. The execution was carried out after "sham trials," Amnesty International said.

The ultra-conservative kingdom on Tuesday beheaded 37 of its citizens in its biggest mass execution in three years and first of that scale since Mohammed bin Salman became the heir apparent to the throne in June 2017. AP reported, citing Saudi dissident Ali Al-Ahmed, that at least 34 of those who were executed were members of the country's Shia minority. According to Al-Ahmed, it became the "largest execution of Shiites in the kingdom's history." ...

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