Can Saudi Arabia Execute a 13-Year-Old Boy for Protesting?

[HAIDER]

Murtaja Qureiris, arrested aged 13, is facing execution for taking part in protests while he was just 10 years old

A Saudi teenager who has been detained in 2014 could face the death penalty after being accused of attending a demonstration when he was just ten-years-old, Amnesty International said on Friday.


Murtaja Qureiris was arrested by police aged-13 and charged with a series of offences, including his alleged participation in a protest as a ten-year-old in the east of the country in 2011.


A video shared by CNN allegedly shows Qureiris as a boy among bike protesters in Saudi Arabia's Shia-majority Eastern Province.

The kingdom's public prosecution confirmed to Amnesty International this week that it was pursuing the death penalty for the teenager, despite one of the offences being allegedly committed by Qureiris when he was still a boy.


"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," said Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf.

"It is appalling that Murtaja Qureiris is facing execution for offences that include taking part in protests while he was just 10 years old."

Executing anyone convicted of crimes below the age of 18
is strictly forbidden under international law.

Qureiris was detained at the juvenile detention centre in al-Dammam city in September 2014, and held in solitary confinement for a month, while he was beaten and subjected to intimidation by his interrogators.

He was charged with attending anti-regime protests, attending the funeral of his brother Ali Qureiris who was killed in a 2011 protest, joining a "terrorist organisation", throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station, and firing at security forces.

The protests were part of widespread unrest among Saudi Arabia's Shia-minority about government discrimination.

Amnesty International said that Riyadh has used executions and the threat of the death penalty to stifle political opposition.

"The Saudi Arabian authorities have a chilling track record of using the death penalty as a weapon to crush political dissent and punish anti-government protesters -including children- from the country's persecuted Shia minority,” said Lynn Maalouf.

In April, Amnesty International confirmed another Shia young man who was arrested aged-16 for taking part in anti-government protests was executed.

He was among 37 men executed in one day earlier this year, in a spree of executions that activists say were politically-motivated.

Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawood al-Marhoon, arrested in 2012 aged between 16 and 17 for taking part in political also face execution at any time.

"Instead of stepping up their use of the death penalty to silence critics Saudi Arabia's authorities should immediately revoke the death sentences against Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawood al-Marhoon and save these young men’s lives," said Maalouf.

"The international community also has a crucial role - they must take a public stand on these cases and demand that the Saudi authorities end their use of the death penalty once and for all."

This article has been adapted from its original source.

(this is nothing against the people of Arab land or shia or sunni, it is question of extreme govt policies. children shouldn't be part of govt extremist policy)


kid video posted on cnn site.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/06/middleeast/saudi-teen-death-penalty-intl/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ution-teenager-murtaja-qureiris-a8950251.html
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/who-murta...es-execution-participating-arab-spring-799162
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/can-saudi-arabia-execute-13-year-old-boy-protesting-1289920

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Amnesty urges Saudi Arabia to rule out death penalty for teenager
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...e-death-penalty-teenager-190608063008911.html

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

More propaganda nonsense from the usual Arabized and Arab-obsessed suspect on PDF. The great Mullah drone and defender of the Arabized Farsi Mullah regime who are 100 worse yet not a single word from this individual since forever on PDF.

Where is the retarded source of this propaganda piece and what is the evidence of that person even existing let alone being 13 year old? Is this another piece by social-liberal justice warrior cretins who don't understand that killing policemen, engaging in terrorism, combating and threatening state security and working with foreign elements (enemies even worse) is harshly combated by any sane state? Like that terrorist Al-Nimr family that has been executed (thankfully) by large for their terrorism.



One must be mentally retarded to believe this nonsense and baseless (without any proofs whatsoever) propaganda.

A video shared by CNN allegedly shows Qureiris as a boy among bike protesters in Saudi Arabia's Shia-majority Eastern Province.
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"Bike protestors"? What is that nonsense about? They should have come up with something more believable. The Eastern Province is not majority Shia at all. That article starts well. Where is that video? Why is it not posted, lol?

 

[gangsta_rap]

Al-Nimr family that has been executed (thankfully) by large for their terrorism.

WE MISSED YOU SAIF

 

[GHALIB]

Murtaja Qureiris, arrested aged 13, is facing execution for taking part in protests while he was just 10 years old

A Saudi teenager who has been detained in 2014 could face the death penalty after being accused of attending a demonstration when he was just ten-years-old, Amnesty International said on Friday.


Murtaja Qureiris was arrested by police aged-13 and charged with a series of offences, including his alleged participation in a protest as a ten-year-old in the east of the country in 2011.


A video shared by CNN allegedly shows Qureiris as a boy among bike protesters in Saudi Arabia's Shia-majority Eastern Province.

The kingdom's public prosecution confirmed to Amnesty International this week that it was pursuing the death penalty for the teenager, despite one of the offences being allegedly committed by Qureiris when he was still a boy.


"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," said Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf.

"It is appalling that Murtaja Qureiris is facing execution for offences that include taking part in protests while he was just 10 years old."

Executing anyone convicted of crimes below the age of 18
is strictly forbidden under international law.

Qureiris was detained at the juvenile detention centre in al-Dammam city in September 2014, and held in solitary confinement for a month, while he was beaten and subjected to intimidation by his interrogators.

He was charged with attending anti-regime protests, attending the funeral of his brother Ali Qureiris who was killed in a 2011 protest, joining a "terrorist organisation", throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station, and firing at security forces.

The protests were part of widespread unrest among Saudi Arabia's Shia-minority about government discrimination.

Amnesty International said that Riyadh has used executions and the threat of the death penalty to stifle political opposition.

"The Saudi Arabian authorities have a chilling track record of using the death penalty as a weapon to crush political dissent and punish anti-government protesters -including children- from the country's persecuted Shia minority,” said Lynn Maalouf.

In April, Amnesty International confirmed another Shia young man who was arrested aged-16 for taking part in anti-government protests was executed.

He was among 37 men executed in one day earlier this year, in a spree of executions that activists say were politically-motivated.

Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawood al-Marhoon, arrested in 2012 aged between 16 and 17 for taking part in political also face execution at any time.

"Instead of stepping up their use of the death penalty to silence critics Saudi Arabia's authorities should immediately revoke the death sentences against Ali al-Nimr, Abdullah al-Zaher and Dawood al-Marhoon and save these young men’s lives," said Maalouf.

"The international community also has a crucial role - they must take a public stand on these cases and demand that the Saudi authorities end their use of the death penalty once and for all."

This article has been adapted from its original source.
(this is nothing against the people of Arab land or shia or sunni, it is question of extreme govt policies. children shouldn't be part of govt extremist policy)
kid video posted on cnn site.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/06/middleeast/saudi-teen-death-penalty-intl/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ution-teenager-murtaja-qureiris-a8950251.html
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/who-murta...es-execution-participating-arab-spring-799162
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/can-saudi-arabia-execute-13-year-old-boy-protesting-1289920

• NEWS
• /
• MIDDLE EAST

Amnesty urges Saudi Arabia to rule out death penalty for teenager
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...e-death-penalty-teenager-190608063008911.html

very sad .

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

WE MISSED YOU SAIF

Sword of the Arabs is an honorary title. Al-Nimr (Tiger) are pseudo-Arabs (enemies of Arabs) and killed a few innocent Arabs (police) and plotted to hurt one of the most if not the most important Arab country (KSA) from the inside as well as working with foreign enemies to hurt the country and its people.





Naseem cemetery in Riyadh.

 

[Shapur Zol Aktaf]

Lool this 13 year old kid on bike wanted to kill policemen? this Ben-Solomon guy has exceeded all the limits in brutality, solely leaning on temporary zionist support/alliance.

 

[KingWest]

So sad

 

[Philip the Arab]

So sad

Its their country. What would you say if Turkey did the same?

 

[OldTwilight]

Till they have money , they can do it ....


We are just like our ancestors , except we have more advanced tools

Just look at below of this page and similar thread section

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

Its their country. What would you say if Turkey did the same?

There is zero proof of that individual even being arrested in the first place let alone being sentenced to death. Executions of minors barely occur in KSA unless in special circumstances where the condemned has committed a murder or another serious crime. If you are old enough to commit the crime while knowing the consequences of your crime age cannot be an excuse. So if you are 17 years and 360 days old you escape scotch free while if you are precisely 18 years old it is all fine.

It is Amnesty International as usual writing nonsense. According to them 100.000's of people have been executed for "protesting" already. In reality the execution rate in KSA is very limited and much smaller than that of Iran next door for instance.





What is 150 executions in a country of 35 million each year? That is nothing. Especially given the harsh laws and penalties in KSA. Thank God for that because that is one of the reasons why we have one of the safest countries in the world with one of the lowest crime rates despite hosting millions of people from various countries, most of them underdeveloped compared to our country.

Obviously if that individual has indeed been captured and sentenced to death (no proof) while innocent the people responsible for that verdict should themselves be punished harshly. However I have never heard of the country executing 13 year olds. Just nonsense. 16-18 year old murderers, rapists, drug smugglers etc. yes.

 

[B.K.N]

Pakistan should learn from Saudi Arabia how to deal with traitors

 

[Philip the Arab]

Pakistan sentences 13 years olds.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/13-year-old-pakistani-boy-gets-50-years-in-jail-for-murder.291355/

 

[Timur]

Its their country. What would you say if Turkey did the same?

we would not do the same!

humbleness is the keyword! we didnt survive 1000 years in the region to kill 14 year old children

Pakistan sentences 13 years olds.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/13-year-old-pakistani-boy-gets-50-years-in-jail-for-murder.291355/

man are all arabs the same? he is acting as if executing and imprisioning is the same.. as if shooting and talking is the same.. you guys cannot be helped..

 

[Philip the Arab]

we would not do the same!

humbleness is the keyword! we didnt survive 1000 years in the region to kill 14 year old children



man are all arabs the same? he is acting as if executing and imprisioning is the same.. as if shooting and talking is the same.. you guys cannot be helped..

50 years makes him 63 when he is out. Which is worse? Dying quick, or having no family when you get out. I don't believe he will actually be executed though.

 

[GHALIB]

julm mit jata hai inteha par .