Saudi Arabia: Alleged Child Offenders Face Death Sentences

Click to expand Image Men hold placards bearing portraits of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution sparked demonstrations in 2016 by the country's minority Shia citizens against systematic governmental discrimination. Some of the alleged child offenders currently on trial were accused of attending similar protests. © 2016 STR/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) - Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against eight Saudi men charged with protest-related crimes, some o...