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Saudi Arabia is planning the latest in a series of mass executions in the next few days,looking to behead 52 detainees who they have convicted of “terrorism” related charges. Rights groups are harshly critical of the planned executions, noting three of the detainees were children when they were captured.
Perhaps the riskiest beheading of the bunch, however, would be Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a top Shi’ite cleric who was detained after a Shi’ite protestagainst discrimination by the Saudi government. He was sentenced to death in October of 2014 …. http://news.antiwar.com