AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Mohammad-Hadi al-Musawi al-Safawi, the president of Anjuman-e Shari’ Shi’ayan in Jammu and Kashmir, expressed his anger and sadness over the execution of 37 Saudi citizens including Shia scholar, Hujjat al-Islam Muhammad Abdul-Ghani al-Attiyah, in Saudi Arabia, saying that the House of Saud targeted Shia's, especially Shia scholars, as part of a planned conspiracy against the country’s Shia minority and a means to crush their dissent.
Sayyed Mohammad-Hadi said that this is the biggest execution against the Shia's in the history of the House of Saud, in which 34 Shia's and 3 others were beheaded “in connection with terrorism crimes,” as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Muhammad ibn Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, human rights activists and intellectuals widens in the kingdom.
He said that Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization focused on human rights, has confirmed that Saudi Arabia convicted the majority of those convicted after sham trials that violated international fair trial standards and relied on confessions extracted through torture.
Sayyed Mohammad-Hadi said that this was the largest number of executions in a single day in Saudi Arabia since January 2, 2016 when the kingdom executed 47 people for terrorism-related crimes in what was the largest mass execution carried out by Saudi authorities since 1980.
Among those executed three years ago were four Shia's , including prominent cleric Ayatollah Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, whose death sparked protests from Pakistan to Iran and the ransacking of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.
He said that the government of House of Saud has gained more influence among Muslims and the Wahhabi forces have been able to continue to operate their plans.
He said that the oppression of House of Saud against innocent civilians in Yemen, Syria, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and elsewhere is proof of this.
Sayyed Mohammad-Hadi urged Muslims to respond to the enemies’ animosity by strengthening the unity in their ranks.
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source : ABNA24
Saturday
27 April 2019
12:24:11 PM
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The president of Anjuman-e Shari’ Shi’ayan in Jammu and Kashmir said that the House of Saud targeted Shia's, especially Shia scholars, as part of a planned conspiracy against the country’s Shia minority and a means to crush their dissent.