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Urgent Action update: Juvenille offender's death sentence upheld in Saudi Arabia

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An appeal court has upheld the death sentence against Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, a Shi’a man who was convicted of offences committed when he was 16 years old. The court appears to have based its sentence on forced “confessions”.

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Saudi Arabia

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