Two Bahraini Shi’a men have been executed in Saudi Arabia following what Amnesty International described as a “grossly unfair trial” on terrorism-related charges.
Click to expand Image People gather around the symbolic graves of Jaafar Sultan (left) and Sadeq Thamer, in Bahrain. 2023 zainab alaradii/Twitter Two Bahraini Shi'a men have been executed in Saudi Arabia following what Amnesty Internationaldescribed as a "grossly unfair trial" on terrorism-related charges. Jaafar Sultan and Sadeq Thamer were arrested in May 2015 and held incommunicado for more than three months, according to Amnesty International. The charges were related to allegations of smuggling explosives inside Saudi Arabia and participating in protests in Bahrain. The two Bahrainis were tried and sentenced to death in Saudi's notorious Specialized Criminal Court in October 2021 following protest-related charges that fall within the Saudi counterterrorism law. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, continue to use overbroad provisions contained within terrorism laws to suppress dissent and target religious minoriti
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