Nimr emerged as the most prominent of those after sermons in his home village of Awamiya, an impoverished part of Qatif known as a redoubt of opposition to the Al Saud, in which he called for the formation of a “righteous front” to protect Shi’ites.
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Protests have taken place in Saudi Arabia’s Shia-majority Eastern Province, in Bahrain and several other countries.
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Meanwhile, the road the embassy sits on in northern Tehran saw a new street sign come up in recent hours. Iran’s foreign ministry warned that Riyadh would “pay a high price for following these policies”.
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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said that by condemning the execution, Iran had “revealed its true face represented in support for terrorism”.
The demonstrators in Tehran hurled petrol bombs and stormed the Saudi embassy before being cleared out by police.
Reports have emerged of crowds breaking into and setting fires at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran.
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“[Ban] also calls for calm and restraint in reaction to the execution of Sheikh Nimr and urges all regional leaders to work to avoid the exacerbation of sectarian tensions”, the statement read.
Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others convicted on terror charges, including three other Shiite dissidents and a number of al-Qaida militants.
One of those executed was Fares al-Shuwail, described by Saudi media as Al-Qaeda’s top religious leader in the kingdom.
The brother of an executed Shiite cleric says Saudi authorities have told the family that they had already buried his body, but didn’t tell them at which cemetery. Some of the men were shot by a firing squad and some were beheaded, a ministry spokesman said on Al-Arabiya TV.
“It will also increase tensions inside Saudi Arabia because it gives the Shiite community new grievances and symbols to rally around within the country”.
In 2009, he threatened to lead Saudi Arabia’s Shiite Muslims to secession, provoking a government crackdown in the minority’s eastern heartland, the centre of the kingdom’s oil reserves.
The Sunni-ruled kingdom reopened its embassy in Baghdad this week for the first time since ties were cut in 1990 over Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, underscoring a rapprochement that could help boost a regional alliance against Islamic State militants.
It comes after the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, considered a terrorist by Riyadh but hailed in Iran as a champion of the rights of Saudi Arabia’s marginalised Shi’ite minority.
The move sparked global outrage and strong protests from Iraq and Iran, with the Shiite-majority Iran saying that the charges were politically and religiously motivated.
The mass executions – by beheading or shooting – “only further stains Saudi Arabia’s troubling human rights record”, said Sarah Leah, Middle East director for the U.S.-based non-profit Human Rights Watch.
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Rights groups have repeatedly raised concern about the fairness of trials in Saudi Arabia, where murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
