The 43 Sunni jihadists executed on Saturday, including al Qaeda leaders and ideologues, were convicted for attacks that killed hundreds from 2003-06. Riyadh, along with the UAE, sent tanks and troops to Bahrain in 2011 to quell widespread anti-government protests spearheaded by Bahrain’s Shiite majority.
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“Our dignity is more precious than the unity of this land”, he said in a 2009 sermon.
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However the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers told Austria they have no interest in a further of heightening tensions between them, a spokesman for Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said. That foreign power was obviously Iran.
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During a sermon in 2012, al-Nimr mocked Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who had been the Saudi interior minister and had recently died.
The Saudi diplomats landed in Dubai on their way home to the kingdom on Monday, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV reported early on Monday.
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn described the executions as “profoundly wrong” and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron urged David Cameron to speak out against the Saudi regime’s actions.
When asked about al-Nimr, Eshki replied, “In Saudi Arabia, there is no difference between the criminals”.
Saudi authorities deny discriminating against Shia Muslims and blame Iran for stirring up discontent.
He had been charged with “instigating unrest and undermining the kingdom’s security”, as well as delivering speeches against the government and defending political prisoners.
Police fired back and he was wounded in his thigh. The protesters left the area after about two hours. He was later charged with inciting sectarian strife and terrorist offenses and “insulting the leaders of the Gulf states”.
France said on Sunday it deeply deplored the mass execution and said it reiterated its opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances.
Sir John said: “This is a battle for authority and legitimacy which has been an issue in the Middle East for a century”.
“If injustice stops against Shiites in the east, then (at that point) I can have a different opinion”, the cleric responded, according to his brother Mohammed, who attended court sessions and spoke to The Associated Press before the verdict. “The [Shia] protest movement in the Eastern Province has stopped”.
Despite al-Nimr’s fiery tone, his supporters and others who followed his career said he had not called for violence.
The executions came as Saudi Arabia sought to battle comparisons between its application of Shariah law and that of the Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group.
The death sentence drove the Saudi government into a corner, Dean says.
Despite the focus on Nimr, the executions seemed mostly aimed at discouraging jihadism in Saudi Arabia, where dozens have died in the past year in attacks by Sunni militants.
Where will sectarian tensions go from here? .
Humam Hamoudi, a prominent Shi’ite politician and member of the powerful Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq party, said the execution is a service to ISIS, which is betting on expanding by igniting sectarian wars.
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