{"id":7650,"date":"2021-06-16T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2021-11-28T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:44:59","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%85%d9%84%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%85%d9%84%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%aa%d8%b8%d8%a7\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia executes Mustafa al-Darwish for teenage protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/\u0645\u0635\u0637\u0641\u0649-\u0622\u0644-\u062f\u0631\u0648\u064a\u0634-.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n16 June\u060c 2021\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement this morning, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ministry of the Interior announced that Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish has been executed. His family received no advance notice, and found out Mustafa had been executed by reading the news online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mustafa was arrested in May 2015, and charged with offences related to his participation in protests, many of which occurred when he was 17 years old. He was placed in solitary confinement and beaten so badly that he lost consciousness several times. To make the torture stop, he confessed to the charges against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At his trial, Mustafa told the court that he had been tortured and recanted his confession. The court was also aware that Mustafa was a child at the time of many of the alleged offences. Despite these clear violations of domestic and international law, he was sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last five years, Saudi Arabian authorities have repeatedly stated that they have abolished the death penalty for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li class=\"translation-block\">In September 2016, Saudi Arabia\u2019s delegation to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child\u00a0stated that\u00a0\u201cthere is no application of the death penalty on children.\u201d<\/li><li class=\"translation-block\">In August 2018, promoting the Juvenile Law, the Kingdom\u2019s delegation\u00a0told the UN: \u201cif the crime committed by the juvenile is punishable by death, the sentence shall be reduced to a term of not more than ten years detention\u201d.<\/li><li class=\"translation-block\">On April 23, 2019, six young men sentenced to death for childhood crimes were among those killed in a\u00a0mass execution of 37 people.<\/li><li class=\"translation-block\">\uf0b7In April 2020, the Saudi Human Rights Commission (SHRC)\u00a0announced\u00a0a Royal Decree extending the Juvenile Law and later\u00a0insisted\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cno-one in Saudi Arabia will be executed for a crime committed as a minor.\u201d<\/li><li class=\"translation-block\">\uf0b7In February 2021, the Saudi authorities\u00a0told the UN Human Rights Council that\u00a0\u201canyone who commits a death-eligible crime as a child\u201d will be subject to\u00a0\u201ca maximum sentence of ten years in a juvenile institution\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The execution of Mustafa al-Darwish once again shows that the Kingdom\u2019s claim to have eliminated capital punishment for childhood crimes is not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Mustafa\u2019s family has released the following statement:\u00a0\u201cSix years ago, Mustafa was arrested with two of his friends in the streets of Tarout. The police released him without charge but confiscated his phone. We later found out that there was a photograph on the phone that offended them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later they called us and told Mustafa to come and collect his phone, but instead of giving it back they detained him and our suffering began. How can they execute a boy because of a photograph on his phone? Since his arrest, we have known nothing but pain. It is a living death for the whole family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Reprieve Director Maya Foa commented:\u00a0\u201cIt is not enough for Saudi Arabia\u2019s partners to \u2018raise human rights issues,\u2019 as British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reportedly did on his recent visit to the Kingdom. They need to raise specific cases, and make clear that executions for childhood crimes will not be tolerated. Otherwise Abdullah al-Howaiti, arrested aged 14 and sentenced to death at 17, could be next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Ali al-Dubaisy, Director of the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, commented:\u00a0\u201cOnce again the Saudi authorities have shown that their claims to abolished the death penalty for children are worthless. The cruelty of this execution, without warning, for the crime of joining protests as a teenager, is the true face of Mohammed Bin Salman\u2019s Saudi Arabia \u2013 not the endless empty promises of reform.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0623\u0639\u0644\u0646\u062a \u0648\u0632\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0628\u064a\u0627\u0646 \u0644\u0647\u0627 \u0635\u0628\u0627\u062d \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0645 \u0623\u0646 \u0645\u0635\u0637\u0641\u0649 \u0647\u0627\u0634\u0645 \u0622\u0644 \u062f\u0631\u0648\u064a\u0634 \u0642\u062f \u0623\u0639\u062f\u0645. \u0639\u0627\u0626\u0644\u062a\u0647 \u0644\u0645 \u062a\u062a\u0644\u0642 \u0623\u064a \u0625\u0634\u0639\u0627\u0631 \u0645\u0633\u0628\u0642 \u0648\u0627\u0643\u062a\u0634\u0641\u062a \u0623\u0646 \u0645\u0635\u0637\u0641\u0649 \u0642\u062f \u0623\u0639\u062f\u0645 \u0628\u0642\u0631\u0627\u0621\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631.\u0637. \u0627\u0639\u062a\u0642\u0644 \u0645\u0635\u0637\u0641\u0649 \u0641\u064a \u0645\u0627\u064a\u0648 \u0662\u0660\u0661\u0665\u060c \u0648\u062d\u0643\u0645 \u0628\u062a\u0647\u0645 \u0645\u0631\u062a\u0628\u0637\u0629 \u0628\u0645\u0634\u0627\u0631\u0643\u062a\u0647 \u0628\u0625\u062d\u062a\u062c\u0627\u062c\u0627\u062a \u064a\u0631\u062c\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062f\u064a\u062f \u0645\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u0644\u0639\u0646\u062f\u0645\u0627 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0639\u0645\u0631 \u0661\u0667 \u0633\u0646\u0629. \u0648\u0642\u062f \u0648\u0636\u0639 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0628\u0633 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u0641\u0631\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0648\u062a\u0639\u0631\u0636 \u0644\u0644\u062a\u0639\u0630\u064a\u0628 \u062d\u062a\u0649<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11168,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/11168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}