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US Ally Saudi Arabia Set To Execute 52 Prisoners (Including Juveniles) En Masse
2015 has been a record year for many things - mass shootings in America, Warriors' winning streak, global terrorist attacks, warmest temperatures, and last but not least beheadings in Saudi Arabia. As we previously noted, with 151 executions year-to-date, new King Salman has already overtaken his predecessor's 2014 total of 90, and, as Reprieve.org details, is about enter the all-time record books with the mass execution of 52 prisoners (including juveniles). Of course, given Saudi Arabia's propaganda machine and US media charm offensive, it is highly unlikely any mainstream media outlet will cover such potential abuses (just don't mention 9/11, ISIS funding, or Saeed Farook).
Amnesty International warns that "it is clear that the Saudi Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores."
But it is worse, as Reprieve.org details,
The government of Saudi Arabia is preparing to execute some 52 prisoners at once, including several juveniles arrested at protests, according to reports.
Several Arabic media outlets have this week reported official sources as saying that 52 prisoners are set to be executed in the near future. The reports appear to suggest that among those executed will be six youths arrested at protests in the country’s Eastern Province – including juveniles Ali al Nimr, Dawoud al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher. All three were tortured into bogus ‘confessions’ that would be used to convict them.
The reports say the 52 prisoners – all of whom were convicted in the secretive Specialized Criminal Court – will be executed across nine different cities in the Kingdom in a single day. They suggest that preparations for the executions will be made in the next two weeks. It appears that Sheikh Nimr – Ali’s uncle and an outspoken critic of the Saudi government – is among those set to be executed.
Sheikh Nimr and the juveniles are currently understood to be held in isolation, awaiting execution. All have reportedly recently been given an unexplained medical examination, and there are concerns that this could be a prelude to their being executed at any time. Abdullah – who was 15 when arrested – has recently been moved to a prison some 1,000km from his family, who are now unable to visit him.
The news comes amid outrage at separate plans by the Saudi authorities to execute Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet who was convicted of ‘apostasy.’ There have been widespread calls for the execution to be halted, including from the Palestinian Authority. Recent research by international human rights organization Reprieve has found that a large majority of those facing execution in Saudi Arabia were convicted of non-violent offences such as apostasy and political protest.
Commenting, Reprieve caseworker Kate Higham said:
“These plans are deeply alarming, and should prompt revulsion and condemnation from Saudi Arabia’s allies. It is grotesque in the extreme for the Saudi authorities to suggest executing 52 people at once – among them three juveniles, arrested at protests, whose convictions were ‘secured’ through torture. The US, the UK, and others must urgently intervene, and tell the Saudis there is nothing to be gained from this bloody wave of executions.”
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For over a decade, Saudi Arabia has ranked among the top five executing countries in the world. This trend shows no sign of stopping. As of October 2015, 138 executions had already been recorded, a sharp increase on the 90 executions reported in 2014.
Reprieve’s recent report, Justice Crucified: the Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia, found that 72% of those facing execution in Saudi Arabia were sentenced to death for non-violent offences, including attendance at political protests and drug offences.
Other crimes that are punishable by death include adultery, blasphemy and sorcery. Execution methods include beheading, ‘crucifixion’ (which involves beheading followed by public display of the body), firing squad and stoning.
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There are no "good guys" in the ME. They're all bad. It's just who you're allied with at any given moment that matters. Put any one of them in charge of anything and the head chopping begins anew.
I've lost faith that there are any "good guys" as far as nation states anywhere.
Wouldn't you love to ask Barky about this? He'd probably say he's never heard of secret Saudi head-chpping courts, or that it's copletely false. Either that or he'd say it's like a tradition they do, so we need to respect that.
The world is terribly fucked up.
Who cares? Less brownies left to warm the globe.
Uncle Sam should help the arabs more. Should sell them "sharper" tools.
http://goo.gl/7tHnDu
Goddanm barbarians.
We are caring about this, that muslims kill each other? 52 will hardly make a dent.
Still, throughout history, no nation kills as many innocents as .... USA! USA!
People should probably care because they're killing the educated, secular ones that actually have a brain and would probably bring culture and civilization to the muzzie world....they're not killing their rabid barbaric dogs
Welcome to the USSA Charter.
Wow. Saudi Arabia government way ahead of everyone else?
That’s unacceptable.
So does Hillary or Bill get the dead prisoner's bling?
Thats easy, the Bill & Hillary Foundation for Orphaned Bling!
Who could object to foundations for charity? ;-)
California will take their water for our tribe. /Dune
Always find it interesting as to how many Dune references I see here on ZeroHedge.
Tee hee heh He said "ahead" Huh huh hu
"He", my good sir, prefers to be associated as non-binary gendered and we applaud such Progress!
Fuck anyone whose last name is Bin Saud.
Why hasn't he ever Bin Saud in half?
He could have Bin Betrunked.
They should have all Bin Laden with guilt.
Why girls like scruffy, unemployed guys, is beyond my "understanding".
Blame it on James Dean.
The wanabe pornstar, or the guy that got his Porsche Spyder, demolished?
When I have to piss in the middle of the night... I need to lean over. Darkness plays games with your retna's.
Every journalist taking money from SA under the table has a special place in hell waiting for them. We know who you are.
They plan on getting kicked out of hell for stealing Satan's matches.
Hell is no longer accepting residents of SA. Satan has run out of blankets.
Too bad they missed the two who shot up southern California.
Timing is everything and getting the right people done before they prove their lack of qualifications for reproduction is fairly important too.
I'll take, what do you do for an encore after San Bernandino for $500 Alex.
Stay tuned.., You'll have to wait until next week's false flag to find out.
Bedieu! Bedieu! Beeediewah!
Alex: The last Daily Double on the board!
Alex: As President he called for stricter gun control on private citizens after a government employee and his foreign born wife committed mass murder with his legally aquired guns.
Lucky Contestant Number One: Who is Barack Obama?
Ding! Ding! Ding! ;-)
Wrong.
Obama is Reggie's sock puppet.
Or, Michelle's vagina.
Depending on the day of the week.
Blame the real culprits, please ?
What is Islam
I move that we need common sense reform on how we hire government employees and pResident retards. We shouldn't accept this as normal ,and except for our deranged allies it isn't. If we want to honor the people that got shot* this would be the best way.
*allegedly
lol....ya gotta check out my post up above:)
Sorcery? Does that include anybody or institution who conjures "money" up from thin air?
Da youtz of Saudi Arabia seem to like it.
Why...that could be...my-head-in-a-basket ;-)
Listen, I can tell you from personal experience that the crowd at "Chop Square" for the beheadings is just like medieval public witch burnings, beheadings and quartering. They fucking love it more than an Alabama football fan on a sunny day ahead of Ole Miss by 70, in possession, going into the final 7 minutes with 3 timeouts.
Just because some people have bizarre ethnic customs like mass crucifixions doesn't mean we shouldn't welcome them in with open arms and minds.
This is a time honored tradition passed down from their ancestors
They're like Pilgrims, you racist.
And just like the NFL is bringing football to Europe, the Muslims are bringing their favorite pastime to the US.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but the arch rival of the Crimson Tide is Auburn.
If the Tide is behind at half-time, moving trucks back into Nick Saban's driveway.
So if you're a wizard you're safe? Or do Saudis consider wizardry the same as sorcery?
This type of savagry is always the first sign of the end for the regime practising it. When more and more people realize they have little to lose except their lives, it give them tremendous motivation Salman, when captured, should receive the worst possible death.
The Chinese Communist Party is still in power after killing about a milion times more, 40 50 years ago. The roman empire was pretty cruel and lasted a thousand years. Islam has been at it for 1300 something years.
This is how batshit crazy the world has become. The U.N. appoints Saudi Arabia on the human rights commisson. The same country that been bombing the shit out of Yemen since early this year. Close to 10.000 dead and tens of thousands injured. Then you have the Saudi's being the main backers of the Islamic headchoppers in Syria. Almost 300.000 death in Syria and the country is totally destroyed. This is madness.
You forgot #MrsWhatDifferenceDoesItMake!
But Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama says it's all good.
"This is madness."
THIS. IS. SYRIA!
Other crimes that are punishable by death include adultery, blasphemy and sorcery. Execution methods include beheading, ‘crucifixion’ (which involves beheading followed by public display of the body), firing squad and stoning.
Wait, so ISIS has taken over Saudi also?
Saudi "royal" great apes resent being upstaged by ISIS lesser apes. They jealously guard their position in hierarchy Monkey Island.
habeas corpus
If you want a real reason to get off "fossil fuels," let it be so that we no longer have to be associated with Islamic terrorist states like Saudi Arabia.
Hillary Clinton receives massive bribes from the murderous, barbarian Saudi Arabian government to ensure her silence.
Her silence about what, exactly? Are you implying that billary is getting bribed by the Saudis for her silence about their human rights violations? That's hilarious that you and 5 others would think that billary cares one single bit about who the Saudis kill. I assure you, she does not give a shit about any kind of human rights violations, anywhere.
The Clinton Global Initiative receives massive bribes from the murderous, barbarian Saudi Arabian government to ensure their silence.
Vince Foster Lives!
I defy you you tell me that " Web Hubble", Isn't Chelsea Clinton's daughter. ;-)
So Uncle Sam is in bed with head choppers .... hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Considering that ISIS is a branch of the CIA it's safe to say that yes, Uncle Sam is in bed with the head choppers.
There must be good head choppers and bad head choppers. I'm sure we only like the good head choppers... /s
sixsigma cygnus. you're conflating the question Doc asked...
Hillary Clinton just loves Saudi Arabia!
HR Clinton's first love is Israel, never forget that...
Saudi Arabia will sue any Twitter user who compares the Kingdom’s recent decision to execute a poet to punishments handed down by Isis.
Ashraf Fayadh, a 35-year-old Palestinian poet, was sentenced to death for apostasy – renouncing one’s faith – by a court in Abha on 17 November, according to documents seen by Human Rights Watch.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ashraf-fayadh-saudi-...
Saudi Arabia IS ISIS!
hey guys, just remember, ISIS is the enemy here, the rest are "moderates" lol. Where are the "moderate" muslims speaking out against saudi... which is basically just isis anyways?
Silence? Gee. Time for a nuclear crusade.
Actually, pretty much everybody hates the Saudis.
Saudi Arabia is the same thing as ISIS. The great tragedy is that the United States of America has been allied with these medieval head choppers. Eventually the Saudi Arabian royals will fall from power and be dragged into the streets to lose their heads. The resulting relations between the USA and the new government will be similar to what happened with Iran after the fall of the Shah of Iran.
The silence from the American political parasite class over Saudi Arabia's barbarism is very telling. Donald Trump is the only candidate who hasn't been bribed into silence.
Ha! Ha! Ha! I see what you did there!
<<Donald Trump is the only candidate who...>>
... is worth voting for at the next election, right?
If I want to waste paper, I will clog the toilets at the polling station.
I mostly love animals, but not this kind.
By the way, Saudi Arabia isn't ISIS-like. They ARE ISIS! Yes, Saudi Arabia is ISIS!
Saudi Arabia will sue any Twitter user who compares the Kingdom’s recent decision to execute a poet to punishments handed down by Isis.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ashraf-fayadh-saudi-...
I think it originally said Saudi would chop off the head of any Twitter user who compares Saudi to Isis...
"Simplify" : (maths) to reduce (an equation, fraction, etc) to a simpler form by cancellation of common factors, regrouping of terms in the same variable, etc.
Sue? Uh.... ok.
Why not threaten to kidnap, drag to the desert, crucify and behead the Twitter users instead?? That would sound scarier and would certainly make for better headlines.
Heck, why not get a Hollyvveird production going and stage it? They could drag anybody they wanted.
And yet they(UN) do nothing, they do criticize but dont move damn finger! Why not renounce Human Rights Panel from them!? That would put Saudies publicly on shame!
They awarded them the Human Rights seat after this behavior had been well established. If you ask me they are telling the world exactly what their intentions are and it is a threat if nothing else. The torture and murder of one child is an attack on us all and the UN has made that more clear than anyone.
The US is at the service of the House of Saud.
In before someone sprinkles magic ZH dust on the story and reveals how Saudi head-chopping is a secret Jewish plot
Iz It?
The media's silence is a Jewish plot. Saudi is at war with Iran as is Israel- Saudi and Israel "need" each other and the jewmedia's loyalty to Israel trumps all else.
Exactly...It is those who try and make it out to be just a "conspiracy theory", that are most dishonest. It is funny how you can point the finger at any group, and race, but not Jews. I read on Ron Paul where you can tell who controls you, because those are the ones you are not allowed to criticize.
Here again in California, will this be another tool to push US in to Syria. We are talking billions and billions of dollars to be made, of course there are conspiracies.
I always say, the only difference between conspiracy theory and fact is time, time for the truth to come out.
ZH is a Jewish reverse psychology plot
just sayn
it's actually 'King Salmanstein'........jus sayin dudes.........wtf
George Soros
Haim Saban
Mike Bloomberg
Paul Wolfowitz
Sheldon Adelson
https://thezog.wordpress.com/
no matter how obvious reality, you can bet there will be some prick screaming "Antisemitism"!
So Obama, what you gonna do? Nothing? Right...
Please also note the homosexual cocaine-addicted "Princes" ensconced in the west are exmpt from the same laws they impose on the public at-large.
I have always been appalled at how Israel openly speaks of all non-Jews as being sub-human (and yes, that includes any Christians who might be reading this). But I can honestly say that I might have to take a step back off my high-horse and re-think my own attitude about that. As far as these murderous savages known as Saudi rulers are concerned... maybe Israel has a point.
The perps of 9/11 make the Saudis look like pikers.
Have some humanity, the Middle East has been the West's play ground for decades, using its resources and their lands for geopolitical resources.
How can any America point the finger at ANYONE?! We support murderous Israel, ISIS, Saudi, Egypt...
How many nations have we destroyed, or do people of Iraq not count as people?!
The US government does not do anything for its people, its all about zionist interests, of that their can be no doubt.
What is most disgusting is Americans are just devoid of empathy for those who we destroy, so well trained by our zionist masters...
Soon the beheadings will be broadcast live on network television, Vegas will take bets, and this will quickly become the biggest spectator sport in the US. I know, not gonna happen but if it did, there would be many who would actually tune in and enjoy. Those would be the same people we saw fighting over the discounted TVs on Black Friday.
In Saudi Arabia, you are beheaded for criticizing the royal family. In Iran, there are elections. In Saudi Arabia, you are beheaded for not being Muslim. In Iran, there are synagogues. Please remember this when The Jew tells you Iran is our enemy and Saudi Arabia is our friend.
aw fuck! i'll take firing squad for $300 Alex............
You could say the same about Russia:
Remember when that drunk fuck Yeltsin was the West’s darling. He of course was doing what American’s Presidents do, placing the interests of the Central Bankers ahead of the people. Then came Putin, and once Putin locked up the first Jewish Oligarch Parasite in Russia, “US” media went to work demonizing him.
Russia is Orthodox Christian, yet American evangelicals (the stupidest people on the face of the earth, bar none) are hell bent on hating Putin/Russia. Divide and conquer, no one is better.
Try this in Saudi Arabia:
http://tinyurl.com/h26fpaq
"I've lost faith that there are any "good guys" as far as nation states anywhere."
"Nation States" are pure fiction at this point. Those entities all come under the protective umbrella of Corporations. They have rights, you don't.
Secretly, is anyone thinking 52 is a small start? Let crazy snakes eat their own tail.
I always read the comment section of articles like this, knowing human filth like you will show your face.
The Middle East was not a disaster zone until Israel was created and used is filthy central banking money to purchase Washington.
You sound like hasbara…
Yep and not one nation will make Israel respect international law.
i kinda figured that everybody droppin acid, smokin that weed, and huffn all that Testors glue outta #6 paper bag back in the sixties & 70's, that this world was gonna be totally fucked to the hilt when all that screwed up DNA got all through the systems of them damn boomers. guess i was right. chop away! shoot away! the good times are here to stay!........little poetry for you guys. and gals.
This serves as a reminder how fearful the House of Saud is of a Syrian, Ukranian, or Libyan type attempt at revolution and regime change. Those 15 Saudis who flew the planes into WTC, were probably recruited with the promise of bringing down the Saud Monarchy, but eventually turned to destroying the WTC.
The large number of dissatisfied citizens to be executed is just an attempt to obscure the murder young Abdullah, who became the poster boy of the Saudi King's criminal behavior.
For me, this just reinforces the immoral hypocrisy of western writers like Josh Rogin who wrote:
No, Rogin, King Salman is holding on to what his ancestors have stolen and you are both the fawning symptom and the righteous disease.
Sunni = dollar hedgemony and petrodollar. Sunni = radical islamist. Shia = another form of radical islamist aligned with non sunnis and hoping for the end of petro dollar and hoping to obliterate Sunnis. Sunnis hope to obliterate all Shias. Sunnis have tacit, passive non-aggression treatyunspoken with Israel.
Turkey, Saud and the minor (small oil emmeriates) of the gulf, Quattar (Gutter by the US presstitutes) Arab Emirates, etc. are Sunni.
Most of the enlightened, pro education, open societies (prior to US incursions,) have been non-sectarian governments in majority Shia populations.
Sunni Saud = presidents of USA bowing and kissing ass.
What else does US offer BUTT petro $ and world police powers? Trade Partners accept fiat mystery dollars (based on facsit govt false reports to determine credit value,) under duress.
US must appease Sunni or loose trade in petrodollars.
Shia (and Russia) must create new world order where oil is not Sunni controlled or traded in the currency of the world facist police.
Turkey is Sunni. Turkey supports ISIs. ISIS is enemy of US citizen and US values.
Turkey is US ally thru NATO (divine treaty.)
Turkish president's family profits from trade with ISIS.
US supports Sunni terrorists in hopes that Dick Cheney's pipeline can be built to replace Russina/Shia oil and Nat Gas supply to eastern EU.
Thsi is a typical elitists war. Shia vs Sunni. Red vs Blue. GIVE ME THE FUCKING WEALTH AND POWER.
Your sons and daughters, (thanks MR. carter) mean nothing. I WANT MY FUCKING PIPELINE NOW!
Get this strait. Sunnis = ISIS, Saud, Turkey, Gulf States, Israel. US... all the rest are Shia. It seems OBrahma is shia and will twist in his grave with no virgins. He si so conflicted that he cannot act.
Sunni vs Shia is all about "WHO" is the proper legitimate descendant of the founder of the Arab economic/social order. It bwas never about religion (in liberal western terms,), building the culture, it was about trade and economics.... and cultural identity. A strange blend of trade and ego.
Western and Eastern Religion is not about ego. It is about altruism. No aprt of Islam speaks to this. It is fully a parctial, social, and economic practice with no regard for higher human values. NONE.
Accepting Islam as a religion is flawed. Religion is redemptive, not prosectuturial.
Enuf for tonite. You stoopid perma bears (the world is ending) have been led to the promised land tonite by some guy who is Brad Pitt.
If you live there, you keep your silly ass home and your silly mouth shut, and if maybe if you are lucky, you can become a senior citizen.
"Shia vs Sunni."
Whether you're Shia or Sunni makes less difference to Muslims than whether you're radical or moderate.
You should talk to Muslims instead of just reading about them.
So.. the Pope doesn't feel a need to say anything about this? Since he has had such a bleeding heart for the Syrian refugees one might expect that he may have something to say about the execution of kids. It's interesting which human rights issues tend to garner supporst these days.
Interesting how these killings are nobodies killing nobodies. Its never some lone gunman killing people at a Hollywood gala, or Washington fund raising event... You would think these crazy people who do the killing would go after the people who are doing what they consider evil.
Curiously the only powerful people who get killed are the great ones, the ones that are going good, the JFK's, MLK's, and so many we NEVER hear about (Paul Wellstone), of course no one should ever believe JFK was killed by a lone gunman.
House of Saud = pond scum if not for oil.
Is there any difference between Wahabbi Saudis ruling class and ISIS ?
I think they are only practicing Satan worship
if their gawd of Abraham demands killing, blood , sacrifice & murder-
.............what kind of gawd is that?
And should it be respected or worshipped?
Saudi Arabia isn't ISIS-like. Saudi Arabia IS ISIS.
Saudi Arabia's perverted medieval despots pay massive bribes to Hillary Clinton to keep these kinds of news accounts away from American readers. Hillary isn't doing a very good job for her Saudi Arabian paymasters. Perhaps she's angling for even greater bribes?
This is how the German intelligence service BND sees SA: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie...
The House of Saud was founded by the Rothschild led City of London and its banksters, and remains close to the Crown which wants feudalism, and uses its Mi6 and Mossad to force that.
That is a load of supremacist, narcissistic nonsense.
It is a sin to kill children. There is no justification for killing children. It is ridiculous for the USA to bow down to the old world order which claims to want a new world order, but merely puts a new brand name on its hateful ways.
If anybody in the West had any balls, they'd simply tell the sub-human savage barbarians in Saudi that for each person executed, one bomb will be dropped on Riyadh, starting with the gold-plated palaces and moving on to the oil infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia, one of the USA / EU finest allies and such loyal friends.