sat 02 jan 2016, 10:36

Saudi Arabia executes 47 ‘terrorists’

RIYADH –

Saudi Arabia has Saturday 47 people were executed who were convicted of terrorism. Among them was the prominent shiite spiritual Nimr Bakr al-Nimr. That has the Saudi ministry of the Interior reported.

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Most of the executed, medical were involved in a series of attacks that terreurbeweging al-Qaeda between 2003 and 2006 was performed, proposed to the ministry. However, there are also shiites killed that from 2011 to 2013 were involved in protests against the regime, including Nimr.

The execution of Nimr in a bad fall at Iran. That had previously been warned that , Saudi Arabia is a high price to pay” if the country the execution would run out.

It is not known how the condemned to death are placed. Saudi Arabia opts mostly for public beheadings.

The country has the number of executions last year sharply increased. In 2015, 157 people put to death, while a year earlier nineties.