Saudi Arabia executes seven men in public by firing squad

""The seven men – Sarhan Al Mashaikh, Saeed Al Zahrani, Ali Al Shahri, Nasser Al Qahtani, Saeed Al Shahrani, Abdulaziz Al Amri and Ali Al Qahtani – were charged with organising a criminal group, armed robbery and raiding and breaking into jewellery stores in 2005, and sentenced to death in 2009. International rights groups had protested that the men – now aged between 20 to 24 years old according to news website sabq.org – were condemned for crimes committed when they were juveniles."It is a bloody day when a government executes seven people on the grounds of 'confessions' obtained under torture, submitted at a trial where they had no legal representation or recourse to appeal," said Amnesty's MENA director Philip Luther. They claimed their relatives were also "threatened with torture if they withdrew their 'confessions'," said Amnesty."" (thanks Amir)