Most of those executed on Saturday were involved in a series of attacks carried out by al-Qaida from 2003-06, the interior ministry said.
Iran, a Shia Muslim country, has warned that executing Nimr “would cost Saudi Arabia dearly”.
In October 2015 Saudi Arabia’s supreme court rejected an appeal against the death sentence passed earlier on Nimr, who had called for pro-democracy demonstrations and whose arrest in 2012 sparked protests in which three people died .... http://www.theguardian.com
