That should be a new big problem in Middle East ! He supported demonstrations of the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia and was therefore arrested: Now the preacher Nimr al-Nimr scheduled to be executed. The prosecution accuses him of “war against God” before.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced the Shiite preacher Nimr al-Nimr Bakir death. This was announced by his brother on Twitter. The arrest of the cleric two years ago had been riots with dead result. In Saudi Arabia, the Shia are in the minority and are suppressed. Nimr is alleged to have called for sectarian violence in the east of the country and the armed resistance to security forces.

The prestigious newspaper “al-Iktisadija” from Riyadh confirmed the message of the death sentence against Nimr. The paper relies on judicial circles. An official confirmation from the Ministry of Justice will soon be expected.

Nimr was arrested in July 2012. He had previously supported the 2011 protests erupted in eastern Saudi Arabia. In the local region Katif majority Shiites live, who rebel against their oppression. Because Nimr had supported these protests, the prosecutor accused the clergy in the last year because of “supporting terrorism” and “attempted war against God” to.

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Nimr is one of the most prominent representatives of the Shiites in Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabi jurists who determine the religious and political course of the country that Shias are not considered Muslims as equal. Therefore, they can not celebrate their holidays openly, from the civil service, they are largely excluded.

Nimr occurred for years for greater autonomy of the Katif region. The province in the east of the Kingdom is one of the most oil-rich areas of the country. Since 2011, piled up in the region, the protests against the ruling family of Saud. The rioting several demonstrators have since been killed. Also Nimr was shot during his arrest and injured his hip.

This year two more Shia already been convicted in connection with the protests in Qatif to death. Last year, more people were executed in the strictly conservative-ruled Kingdom than in almost all other countries in the world. Most offenders were publicly beheaded.

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