Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

The UK remains concerned about the cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher. Our Embassy in Riyadh last raised the three men's cases on 27 July. Our expectation remains that they will not be executed. We continue to closely follow their cases.

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