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January 4, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35213244

Saudi Arabia Executes 47, including Top Shiite Cleric

(BBC News) Saudi Arabia has executed 47 people convicted of terrorism offenses, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, the interior ministry said. Nimr was a vocal supporter of the mass anti-government protests that erupted in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province in 2011. Among those executed was Adel al-Dubayti, convicted of shooting dead a freelance cameraman on an assignment for the BBC, Simon Cumbers, and critically injuring reporter Frank Gardner in 2004. Those also put to death include Sunnis convicted of involvement in al-Qaeda-linked terror attacks in 2003.

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