Scores of Shi’ites in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province marched through Nimr’s home district of Qatif shouting “down with the Al Saud”, and dozens more gathered in nearby Bahrain, a Sunni-ruled island kingdom allied to Saudi Arabia.
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At least three other Shias were executed alongside Sheikh Nimr.
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-Tehran has strongly condemned the execution of prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimir al- Nimrits by Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying Riyadh will pay “a high price”.
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Al-Nemer participated in antigovernment protests during the Arab Spring uprisings in the eastern part of the country in 2011.
Saudi Arabia’s main regional rival, Iran, has warned that executing Nimr “would cost Saudi Arabia dearly”.
“The Foreign Secretary has told Parliament that he does not expect Ali Mohammed al-Nimr to be executed but he now needs to seek fresh assurances that he will be reprieved”. Nimr’s supporters say he was a peaceful dissident who called for greater rights for the kingdom’s Shi’ite minority.
The Saudi Press Agency listed the names of those executed by firing squads and beheadings across the nation including in the capital of Riyadh.
“Al-Nimr is now gaining popularity locally, particularly with young people, as his words appeal to those disaffected by the general economic malaise experienced by Saudi Arabia’s lower classes”, read a classified U.S. State Department cable made public in 2010 by Wikileaks regarding a 2008 meeting between the sheikh and a U.S. official.
In Beirut, Shi’ite shopkeeper Abu Ali Dimashq said he hoped Nimr’s death would prove “a victory against the Al Saud family, because this is the beginning of their end, God willing”.
Human rights organizations have lashed out at Saudi Arabia for failing to address the rights situation in the kingdom.
Analysts have speculated that the execution of the four Shia was partly to demonstrate to Saudi Arabia’s majority Sunni Muslims that the government did not differentiate between political violence committed by members of the two sects.
The 43 Sunni jihadists executed included several prominent al Qaeda figures, including those convicted of responsibility for attacks on Western compounds, government buildings and diplomatic missions that killed hundreds from 2003-06.
Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Shi’ite Council earlier said Nimr’s execution was a “grave mistake… and an execution of reason, moderation and dialogue”.
Nimr was one of 47 people Saudi Arabian executed for terrorism on Friday.
Before his arrest in 2012, al-Nimr had said the people do not want rulers who kill and carry out injustices against protesters.
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Speaking at the scene of the demonstration, he said a recent Amnesty report concluded that the trial against him was “deeply flawed”, adding: ” We also came to the conclusion that he was jailed exclusively for expressing his peaceful points of view, protesting peacefully against the regimes.
