Rights watchdog says second young Shi’ite faces beheading in Saudi

The Daily Mail reports that Ali al-Nimr and Dawoud Al-Marhoon were arrested for their involvement in a 2012 protest when they were just 17 years old.

“With legal avenues exhausted, both juveniles could now be executed at any time, without prior notification to their families”, Reprieve said in a statement on Tuesday.

He was charged with attending a protest, teaching first aid to demonstrators and using his Blackberry phone to urge more people to join in.

Reprieve says that he has been sentenced to death by beheading by the Specialized Criminal Court, which recently upheld a sentence of crucifixion for Ali al-Nimr.. Despite the global outrage over the charges, both teens were sentenced to death for their part in the protests as teens. Most of those sentences have been enforced through beheadings.

In an article published online on October 3rd, the paper said that a “judicial source” at the country’s Ministry of Justice had “confirmed to Makkah Online that the death penalty is the harshest of the penalties that can be enacted upon those who spread rumours which create civil discord, via social media platforms like Twitter”.

Following the horrifying sentencing of the two teen protesters, a few are questioning why the United States and United Kingdom aren’t doing more to express their disdain for the abhorrent behavior.

“We have raised this as a government”.

Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had. I look to see if there is an opportunity to raise it as well.

“We completely disagree with them about their punishment routines, about the death penalty, about those issues”.

Mr Cameron has also been criticised over a bid to build prisons in Saudi Arabia.

One read: “The delegation is honoured to send to the ministry the enclosed memorandum, which the delegation has received from the permanent mission of the United Kingdom asking it for the support and backing of the candidacy of their country to the membership of the human rights council (HRC) for the period 2014-2016, in the elections that will take place in 2013 in the city of New York”.

“Of course it would be easier for me to say ‘I’m not having anything to do with these people, it’s all terribly hard etcetera etcetera, ‘” Cameron said.