Al-Nimr was a central figure in protests by Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority until his arrest in 2012.
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Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that Saudi Arabia would face “divine revenge” for executing a Shiite cleric as condemnation also poured in from Iraq and protesters took to the streets.
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Amnesty International criticised Nimr’s arrest for being part of a campaign by the Saudi authorities to quash all dissent. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was “deeply dismayed” by the executions and called again for an end to the death penalty.
He was put to death Saturday along with 46 Shiite activists and Sunnis who Saudi Arabia said were involved in Al-Qaeda killings.
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His execution sparked angry protests in the Qatif region in eastern Saudi Arabia, where demonstrators denounced the ruling Al Saud dynasty, and in the nearby Gulf kingdom of Bahrain.
UPDATED 10.43AM: Iranian protesters have stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and Shi’ite Muslim Iran’s top leader predicted “divine vengeance” for Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric.
Egypt condemned Sunday the attacks in which the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and Saudi Consulate in the northeastern city of Meshhad were set ablaze as protesters stormed the premises and set their interior on fire in the early hours of Sunday.
Authorities had said that they would take “all necessary legal measures” against any “negative” actions in response to the death sentences, which they would consider as “inciting sedition and threatening civil order”. He was an outspoken government critic and a key leader of Shiite protests in eastern Saudi Arabia in 2011.
In Sunni-ruled Bahrain, police used buckshot and tear gas against Shiite protesters who threw petrol bombs. The U.S. State Department called for Iran to protect the Saudi Embassy, and a spokeswoman told reporters “we condemn in the strongest terms any attacks on diplomatic properties”.
Morocco’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the country is concerned that the situation could take an unmanageable dimension, and counts on the wisdom of Saudi and Iranian officials to prevent the current situation from spreading to other countries of the region already facing many challenges and various elements of fragility.
The sheikh’s brother, Mohammed al-Nimr, said that Saudi officials informed his family that the cleric had been buried in an undisclosed cemetery, a development that could lead to further protests.
Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani saysthe execution of prominent Saudi Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr is an “injustice and an aggression”.
Peaceful protests were held across Pakistan, including in the southwestern city Quetta where about 1,000 people called on the government to reconsider its longtime ties with Riyadh and demonstrators held placards bearing anti-Saudi slogans.
The disruption in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran may have implications for peace efforts in Syria.
Khamenei’s website carried a picture of a Saudi executioner next to notorious IS executioner Jihadi John, with the caption “Any differences?”.
The execution of the Shiite leader has angered Shiite communities in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain and Yemen.
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He says global law only permits the death penalty in cases where the crimes committed are considered “most serious” and human rights bodies have consistently defined those as being “being restricted to murder and other forms of intentional killing”.
