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Saudi Arabia on Monday, May 29, 2023, put to death two Bahrainis accused of plotting what they called terrorist operations.
The Bahraini nationals, Jaafar Sultan and Sadiq Thamer, had been charged with joining a terrorist cell led by a man wanted in Bahrain.
There was no immediate reaction from Bahraini authorities.
Since May 2, 2023, Saudi Arabia, which has one of the world’s highest death penalty rates, has executed nine convicts they tagged terrorists.
There have been more than 40 executions in Saudi Arabia in 2023 and in 2022 the country executed 147 people which included 81 on a single day for what the country called terrorism-related offences.
The Bahrainis were accused of aiding terrorists in the country as they were said to be involved in smuggling explosive materials and supporting plans to carry out attacks in the kingdom and in neighbouring Bahrain.
The Amnesty International said Sultan and Thamer were arrested in Saudi Arabia on May 8, 2015, and were sentenced in October 2021.
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