[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide----Urgent Action Update: 14 Saudi Arabian Men At Imminent Risk Of Execution (Saudi Arabia: UA 180.17)

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action

14 SAUDI ARABIAN MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION

Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their 
families learned on 23 July
that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences. On 1 June 2016, the 
men were sentenced to
death penalty after a grossly unfair trial based on “confessions” they said 
were obtained under
torture

Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

  *  Urging the Saudi Arabian authorities to halt the execution of the 14 men 
and quash their
     conviction, given grave concerns about the fairness of the trial, to retry 
them in line with
     international fair trial standards without recourse to the death penalty;
  *  Calling on them to order a prompt, impartial, independent and effective 
investigation into the
     allegations of torture and other ill-treatment;
  *  Urging them to immediately establish an official moratorium on executions 
with a view to
     abolishing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.

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Contact these two officials by 4 September 2017:



King and Prime Minister
His Majesty King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty the King
Royal Court, Riyadh
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fax: (via Ministry of Interior)
+966 11 403 3125 (please keep trying)
Twitter: @KingSalman
Salutation: Your Majesty



Ambassador Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Royal Embassy of Saudi 
Arabia
601 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington DC 20037
Fax: 1 202 944 5983
Phone: 1 202 342 3800
Email: info at saudiembassy.net
Salutation: Dear Ambassador