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Protesters Set The Streets On Fire In Bahrain After Saudis Kill Top Shiite Cleric

January 2, 2016

Protesters Set The Streets On Fire In Bahrain After Saudis Kill Top Shiite Cleric

Earlier today, we documented Saudi Arabia’s largest mass execution in 25 years.

In what was billed as an effort to rid the world of 47 “terrorists”, the Saudis killed dozens of al-Qaeda affiliates and four Shiites who stood accused of shooting policemen in the anti-government protests which broke out during the Arab Spring.

Among the Shiites killed was prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr. The Sheikh was an outspoken supporter of the anti-government movement and his death drew sharp condemnation from Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis on Saturday.

In the wake of the execution, “scores marched through Nimr’s home district of Qatif shouting ‘down with the Al Saud’ and, in neighboring Bahrain, police fired tear gas at several dozen people who gathered to protest the news,” AP reported.

“Bahrain’s Saudi-backed Sunni authorities crushed protests led by its majority Shia shortly after they erupted on February 14, 2011, taking their cue from Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa,” al-Jazeera wrote back in February when hundreds took to the streets of Manama to commemorate the anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising. “Tensions are running high in the kingdom where a sectarian divide is deepening and there is a growing gap between the Sunni minority government and the Island’s Shia majority.”

Below, find the searing (literally) images from Bahrain where police fired tear gas at protesters to disperse the crowds.

Are the days of the Gulf monarchies numbered?

Pakistan massacre: Government to execute 500 terrorism convicts following deadly attack, officials say – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

December 22, 2014

Pakistan massacre: Government to execute 500 terrorism convicts following deadly attack, officials say – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Pakistan plans to execute about 500 militants in coming weeks, senior officials say, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terrorism cases.

Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the six-year moratorium after last week’s Taliban massacre at a school in Peshawar, in which 149 people – 133 of them children – were killed in the deadliest terror attack in Pakistani history.

Six militants have been hanged so far after the death penalty was reinstated for terrorism-related cases.

“[The] interior ministry has finalised the cases of 500 convicts who have exhausted all the appeals,” a senior government official said on condition of anonymity.

“Their mercy petitions have been turned down by the president and their executions will take place in coming weeks.”

A second official confirmed the information.

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