unfair trials

After holding some of the detainees for nearly two years without charge, Saudi authorities began a mass trial behind closed doors on 8 March 2020 at the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh. 

Without offering any justification, Bahrain’s High Criminal Appeals Court has delayed a judgement in the case of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa who had previously been sentenced to death on the basis of torture-tainted confessions. Lawyers have been notified that the verdict will now be issued on Christmas Day.

Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a reformist thinker on vague charges relating to his peaceful religious ideas, Human Rights Watch says. 

Saudi Arabia’s official press agency has announced a mass execution of 37 people. Most, if not all, were convicted in the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC), the Kingdom’s secretive and widely condemned anti-terrorism tribunal.