Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism, including the prominent Shia Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimrits, Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Most of those executed were involved in a series of attacks carried out by al Qaeda from 2003-06, it said. Shia Iran has warned that executing Nimr “would cost Saudi Arabia dearly.
Earlier, hundreds of Saudi Shias rallied in the east of the kingdom on Friday to support activists whose execution they fear could be imminent, a witness said.
It was the second Friday in a row that a mass gathering had been held in solidarity with Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr and other death row detainees.
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This has marked the end of Wahabi Arabia very soon InshAllah.
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