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Rights groups warn of underage executions in Saudi Arabia

10 Apr 2021 - 16:09

International rights group Reprieve has warned that 80 per cent of those sentenced to death in childhood are still threatened by execution.


This is while Saudi officials had previously announced that they will halt execution of those underage at the time of detention, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
 
The royal decree issued in March 2020 has not been published in media or the state paper bringing much concern for the rights groups and western lawyers the decree will be ignored.
 
Ten Saudi teenagers are in the kingdom’s jail and feared to be executed.
Reprieve is a nonprofit organization of international lawyers and investigators providing free legal and investigative support to the most vulnerable people across the globe.


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