Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Activists to gather outside the Saudi Arabia embassy in London today 2.1.2016 at 3:PM in condemnation of the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqi al-Nimr.
Saudi Arabia has executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr along with 47 others in defiance of international calls for the release of the prominent Shia cleric and other jailed political dissidents in the kingdom.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and state television reported the executions Saturday, citing the kingdom’s Interior Ministry.
The Saudi Interior Ministry did not elaborate on the method to execute the convicts, but said they were executed Saturday in 12 cities across the country.
