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The Execution of Turki al-Jasser: Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Dissent Targets Journalists Amid Escalating Use of the Death Penalty

Summary by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain
In 2014, Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser warned in a tweet that his government was justifying executions under the guise of national security. In a grim outcome, al-Jasser met the very fate he foresaw. On 14 June 2025, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry announced that al-Jasser had been executed following seven years of arbitrary detention on vague charges of terrorism, treason, and threatening national security. His case marks the first time a j…
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Today, the Ministry of the Interior issued a statement on the execution of the death sentence in the war organization Muhammad bin Hamid bin Hamid al-Hulaibi (Sharadi); he committed a number of terrorist crimes, including the murder of four members of his family in their sleep (his mother, sister, and children), by stabbing them with a sharp instrument to carry out the objectives of the terrorist organization in support of him. Thanks to God, th…

·Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain broke the news in on Monday, June 30, 2025.
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