Ali Mohammed an-Nimr

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Ali Mohammed Baqir an-Nimr on May 17, 2011, before his arrest in 2012.

Ali Mohammed Baqir an-Nimr ( Arabic علي محمد باقر النمر, DMG ʿAlī Muḥammad Bāqir an-Nimr ; born December 20, 1994 ) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who is about to be executed for participating in Arab Spring protests against the repressive regime of the House of Saud in 2012 at the age of 17 . He was arrested by the police and has been detained ever since. Ali Mohammed an-Nimr is a nephew of the Shiite cleric and human rights activist Nimr an-Nimr, who was executed in early 2016 .

Life

Ali an-Nimr was transferred to Dammam Detention Center on February 14, 2012 . All of his proceedings have been kept secret, he has been denied access to a lawyer, and he has been subjected to periodic interrogations in order to force him to sign a "confession." 13 judges have decided on the execution , at the moment only the consent of King Salman is missing . According to the BBC , the Saudi press reported that an-Nimr had been charged with sedition , violation of loyalty to the king, participation in rioting with Molotov cocktails against security forces, drug- related crimes and “other crimes”.

Ali an-Nimr is to be crucified . With this special type of death penalty in Saudi Arabia, the convict is first beheaded , then the head is sewn back on and the corpse is publicly displayed on the cross for several hours. The execution can legally take place at any time in secrecy, even from his family.

On September 23, 2015, the Jeddah court denied his pardon. His father Muhammad an-Nimr asked King Salman for mercy. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung suspects that the severity of the judgment has to do with the position of his uncle, Nimr an-Nimr. This was a "popular Shiite preacher with the rank of Ayatollah and leader of the Shiite protest movement" in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have called for the death penalty to be lifted, as has the French government. On September 26, 2015, the collective Anonymous paralyzed several websites of the Saudi government in protest. At the end of September 2015, human rights experts from the United Nations declared that the Saudi government had committed itself internationally to spare an-Nimr: pronouncing and executing the death penalty for people who were children at the time of their crime were incompatible with the UN ratified by Saudi Arabia. Children's Rights Convention .

Web links

  • European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights: Juveniles and the Death Penalty in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Committee on the Rights of the Child. NGO Submission, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Template for the 73rd meeting. In: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , November 1, 2015 (PDF) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC of September 26, 2015 (Arabic).
  2. ↑ Saudi Arabia: He is to be beheaded and then crucified. In: L'Essentiel , 23 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Christoph Ehrhardt: Draconian judgment: Young Saudi critic of the regime should be beheaded and crucified. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Haunhorst: That is ... Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, death row inmate. In: Jetzt.de , September 24, 2015; Saudi Arabia - Situation of Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr (23rd, September 2015). In: France-Diplomatie - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development , 23 September 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ David Gilbert: Anonymous Knocks Saudi Government Websites Offline In Protest Against Planned Beheading And Crucifixion Of Ali Mohammad Baqir Al-Nimr. In: International Business Times , September 28, 2015 (English).
  6. ↑ Paul Nehf: UN Human Rights Council: Saudi Arabia beheaded in 2015 more people than the IS. In: Die Welt , September 24, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nimr, Ali Mohammed an-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nimr, Ali Mohammed Baqir an-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian protester and prisoner
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1994