UN experts published a press release on Friday demanding that Saudi Arabia immediately halt executions of people convicted of offences committed as minors, following the execution of Jalal al-Labbad last month.

Labbad was 21 years old when he was arrested without a warrant by Saudi authorities in February 2017 for his participation in protests in 2011 and 2012 against the state’s treatment of Shi’a citizens. Labbad was a minor at the time of the alleged offences. He was detained for around ten months, during which he was physically tortured and was in solitary confinement for over nine months. Labbad appeared before a Saudi criminal court in 2019, denied the right to legal counsel, and was sentenced to death three years later.

“We are dismayed by the execution of Mr. Jala

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