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"Saudi Teen Faces Execution, Crucifixion For Taking Part In Protest At Age 10"
Update: A source told CNN that the boy was spared execution and instead sentenced to 12 years in prison.
A teenager who has been imprisoned by the Saudi Arabian government for nearly 5 years is facing execution for taking part in a protest that happened 8 years ago when he was just 10 years old. Murtaja Qureiris was initially arrested when he was 13 years old, 3 years after an Arab Spring related protest that he took part in.
He has spent at least 15 months of his 5 years in prison isolated in solitary confinement.
The Saudi government has charged him with engaging in anti-government protests, possession of a firearm and they also allege that he was affiliated with a terrorist organization. A boy that was only ten years old at the time is accused of being a gun-wielding terrorist, and now they want to torture and kill him, then mutilate his body.
CNN reported that the prosecution’s case is built entirely on forced confessions and that Qureiris is now denying the charges that he initially confessed to.
Human rights groups have been pleading with the Saudi government to not execute the young man.
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East research director, says that this case shows the ruthlessness of the Saudi government.
“There should be no doubt that the Saudi Arabian authorities are ready to go to any length to crack down on dissent against their own citizens, including by resorting to the death penalty for men who were merely boys at the time of their arrest,” Maalouf said.
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