MBS’ Saudi Arabia Continues Bloodbath, Executes Two Bahrainis

30 May 2023 – On Monday, Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia continued its bloody streak by executing two young Bahraini men convicted through confessions derived by torture. Sadiq Thamer and Jaafar Sultan were killed following Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s signature on their execution orders. The men had been the subject of an international human rights campaign demanding their extradition to Bahrain to face a lighter punishment.

Thamer and Sultan had been previously tried in the Bahraini court system, where they had been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges relating to joining a terrorist group and manufacturing explosives. Their trials in Bahrain were marred with due process violations, including the introduction of confessions obtained by means of torture – confessions that ultimately proved dispositive in securing their convictions.

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MBS, Saudi Arabia Execute Four after Tortured Confessions

24 MAY 2023 – On the signature of Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia executed   between 22 and 23 May 2023 four young men from Al Qatif,  three on Monday 22 May and one on Tuesday 23 May for exercising their freedom of expression.  Hassan Issa al Muhanna, Haidar Hassan Mowes,  Mohammed Ibrahim Mowes , and Ahmed bin Ali bin Mutoq Al Badr , were subjected to excruciating acts of torture in order to coerce confessions. They were convicted on charges that would ordinarily not be considered death-eligible under international law, including training in the use of weapons, intent to smuggle, and association with a terrorist organization. This latest execution brings the total number of persons killed to 36 this year alone.

Hassan AlMahanna and Haidar Al-Muwees were both arrested in 2013 and were brutally tortured, physically and mentally, until they were forced to sign a confession. They were executed without notice. Similarly, Mohamed  Al-Muwees: was arrested by Saudi security forces, after they set a trap and was sentenced to death but was later replaced. However, he was then executed on terrorism charges. Ahmed Al Badr was also executed on terrorism charges after he was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. His sentence was replaced with the death sentence.

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Ahmed Maki Hasan Ahmed Kadhem AlHadi

Ahmed Maki AlHadi is a young Bahraini who was arrested in 2022 and subjected to multiple human rights violations, including torture and unfair trial. He is currently serving a prison sentence at Jau prison.

Ahmed was previously arrested three times, each arrest only lasting up to six months, on charges of arson, vandalism, illegal assembly, and participation in demonstrations. During his arrests, he would be subjected to torture and denied access to legal counsel. He would also be forcibly disappeared for days, with the longest period of disappearance lasting two weeks. He would sometimes call his family a few days later to inform them that he was at the Central Investigation Department, and then the call would be cut off. Then, after another few days, he would call only asking for clothes.

Ahmed was repeatedly summoned multiple times after the 2011 pro-democracy revolution for participating in peaceful protests, vandalism, and to interrogate him about his brother, who currently lives abroad. However, he only went voluntarily twice. The first time, he was interrogated for hours at the police center and then released. The second time, he was detained for two days.

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