Activists Warn against Execution of Sheikh Nimr’s Nephew
According to Zinat al-Aisi, a human rights activist, the death sentence for Ali was upheld by Saudi Arabia’s supreme court eleven months ago and it can be carried out on any day.
She underlined that the world must unite to prevent the execution of the young man, whose only crime is having taken part in anti-government rallies.
Ali al-Nimr was arrested in February 2012 when he was 17 years old, and sentenced to death in May 2014 by the deeply deficient Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Jeddah for 12 offences that included taking part in anti-government protests.
His mother told Amnesty International that there were "wounds and swollen bruises” on his body when she visited him in prison and that his treatment there had left him visibly frail and weak.
In January 2016, Ali al-Nimr’s uncle, Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, was put to death along with 46 other people on the same day, after a politically motivated and grossly unfair trial.
The executions drew outrage and widespread criticism worldwide.
