The family of a Saudi teenager set to be
beheaded because he attended a protest
when he was just 15 years old has
pleaded for help.
Abdullah al-Zaher, now 19, was
arrested in March 2012 after attending
protests and is said to have been
beaten and then tortured into signing
a confession without being allowed to
read it or consult with his parents or a
lawyer.
He faced a range of charges from
‘harbouring’ protesters, participating
in demonstrations and chanting
slogans, to ‘concealing the offence of
incitement’, setting fire to a car, and
throwing petrol bombs.
Zaher was sentenced to beheading in
Saudi Arabia’s secretive Specialized
Criminal Court in 2014 and his
sentence was upheld this year,
according to the human rights
organisation, Reprieve.
The prosecutor requested that Zaher
be crucified after he is beheaded.
Zaher is currently in solitary
confinement awaiting execution,
which it is feared could happen at any
time.
He is thought to be the youngest
person at the time of arrest to be given
a death sentence in Saudi Arabia.
Zaher’s father, Hassan al-Zaher told
The Guardian, ‘Please help me save
my son from the imminent threat of
death. He doesn’t deserve to die just
because he participated in a protest
rally.’
He said Zaher had told him he had not
thrown Molotov cocktails or ‘anything
similar’ at the protest.
Zaher’s father told The Guardian his
son is popular and peaceful and that
he went to the protests not really
knowing what they were about.
‘He did not go there with the intention
of fighting or opposing the
government, in his eyes it was just a
simple protest rally,’ he added.
Reprieve, which is assisting the
juveniles, has asked UK Foreign
Secretary Philip Hammond to
intervene in Abdullah’s case and those
of Ali al-Nimr and Dawoud al-
Marhoon, who were also juveniles
when they were arrested at protests. –

No freedom in the holy land.

Bombing in Nigeria here and there, killing everywhere, ritualist everywhere, Ipob, Bokoharam, shi'ites, calltle rearers vs farmars, kidnapping, yahoo cyber crime, money laundring, naira falling, dollar rising, fuell scarcity, bad roads, building collapse, armed robberry everywhere, corruption here and there govt sacking workers, unemployment trending, yet Nigerians has not raised alarm for the whole world to come and save our souls, but we take the lead role to alart the world when a single person is being maltreated elsewhere around the globe. Naija i hail o.

this is the same country the u.s fully supports and attacks assad for human rights abuses.

Someone on Nairaland once said that, 'Saudi Arabia is ISIS that has succeeded'. It is things like this that makes it difficult for one to dispute or challenge such a statement.