region:eastern saudi arabia

Saudi Arabia sentences Sheikh Nimr to death
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A Saudi judge on Wednesday sentenced to death an outspoken Shia cleric whose arrest two years ago prompted deadly protests, the cleric’s brother said on his Twitter account.

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was detained in July 2012 after backing mass protests that erupted in February 2011 in the Qatif district of eastern Saudi Arabia, which is home to many of the country’s marginalized Shia minority.

Last year a prosecutor said he was seeking to convict Nimr for “aiding terrorists” and “waging war on God,” which carry the death penalty. The former interior minister Prince Ahmed had previously accused Nimr of being “mentally unbalanced.”

Two killed when car crashes into #camel in #Saudi_Arabia
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Two Kuwaitis were killed Friday evening when their car hit a camel wandering on a major highway in eastern Saudi Arabia, a local newspaper reported Tuesday. Arab News daily said one victim died immediately, while the second succumbed to his wounds on the way to a hospital near the city of Al-Oyoun in the Gulf kingdom’s eastern Al-Ahsa governorate. “I was surprised to see the camel in the middle of the road,” a witness to the accident was quoted as saying. read more

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