{"id":646,"date":"2015-10-25T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T09:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esohr.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:24:18","slug":"%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%ad%d9%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%ac%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%ad%d9%82\/","title":{"rendered":"ADHRB, ESOHR Call on King Salman To Stay Imminent Execution of Human Rights Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n25 October\u060c 2015\n\n\n\n

More than a year since a Saudi Arabian court sentenced leading opposition activist Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr to death, authorities announced that his appeal has been refused and his death sentence upheld. Sheikh al-Nimr\u2019s family and lawyer reported on Saturday that both the Court of Appeals and the Saudi Supreme Court endorsed al-Nimr\u2019s sentence, and sent his death sentence to King Salman for approval and to the Ministry of Interior for implementation of the court\u2019s sentence of death by beheading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) strongly condemn the news of Sheikh Nimr\u2019s imminent execution and call on King Salman to reject the court\u2019s sentence and stay his execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this news, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr is now at risk of imminent execution, as there remains no legal hurdle to appeal the sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheikh al-Nimr is a 56-year-old prominent human rights activist and scholar, who has campaigned for reforms within Saudi Arabia and was arrested in July 2012 during the height of the Arab Spring. After a violent arrest, in which he was shot four times, he was detained for more than two years, before being sentenced in October 2014 to death on charges related to his peaceful calls for reforms in a secret and closed court hearing. He has now been incarcerated for more three years, where he detained in Al-Haa\u2019ir in Riyadh.\n

<\/p>\nInternational pressure on the Saudi authorities with regards to Sheikh Nimr\u2019s harsh sentence has been strong. UN experts have urged Saudi Arabia to \u201chalt the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr\u201d after citing numerous due process concerns. Sheikh Nimr\u2019s trial appears to be in contravention of several articles of the UNDR, with the experts concluding that al-Nimr\u2019s trial did not \u201cmeet the international standards relating to the right to a fair trial. Concern is expressed that Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr had no full and privileged access to his legal representative.\u201d While the UK and EU have both said they continue to \u201cclosely monitor\u201d Sheikh Nimr\u2019s case, the US Department of State has stayed largely silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSaudi Arabia has executed 138 people in 2015 up to 21st Oct 2015 alone and now, after more than a year and increased international pressure to stay the executions of a group of minors, Saudi Arabia has instead decided to move forward with the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr due to his peaceful calls for reform in the Kingdom,\u201d said Husain Abdulla, Executive Director of ADHRB. \u201cThe case against Sheikh Nimr represents a clear violation to his rights of freedom of speech and assembly. If Saudi Arabia\u2019s international allies, including the US, takes its own rhetoric seriously and believes that freedom of expression is a \u2018fundamental right for all\u2019 then it must publicly call on King Salman to stay Sheikh Nimr\u2019s execution.\u201d\n

<\/p>\nSuch a death sentence against a peaceful activist coupled with the recent increase in death sentence endorsements by the King signals a new low in Saudi Arabia\u2019s attempts to silence all forms of dissent within the country. The endorsement of Sheikh Al-Nimr\u2019s death penalty follows Saudi courts decisions to uphold death sentences for three young activists, who were minors at the time of arrest, which have sparked international outrage. One of these minors, Ali Al-Nimr, is Sheikh Nimr\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADHRB and ESOHR express deep concern that Shiekh Nimr al-Nimr\u2019s execution could be the first of many more executions of innocent activists to follow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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