{"id":11919,"date":"2017-11-29T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/?post_type=update&#038;p=11919"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:20:15","slug":"breaking-theresa-may-saudi-arabia-just-125th-person-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2017\/11\/29\/breaking-theresa-may-saudi-arabia-just-125th-person-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Theresa May in Saudi Arabia just after 125th person executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Maya Foa<\/strong>, Director of Reprieve<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"header_block\">Theresa May arrived in Saudi Arabia today, just after they have executed their 132nd person this year &#8211; 7 people were executed just yesterday.\u00a0She is there for an official visit focused on improving trade relations after Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/vision-2030\/\">Many more face imminent execution for attending protests calling for greater democratic rights, some when they were only children. They were sentenced to death in courts that relied on &#8216;confessions&#8217; gained through torture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time the UK is supporting the Saudi and US-led coalition in Yemen through military training and intelligence sharing. Innocent men, women and children have been killed in a conflict which has made the humanitarian crisis worse.<\/p>\n<p>Now the very people that could rebuild the country have lost faith in the ability of the coalition to help them.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May must end UK support for Saudi abuses and when she meets the Crown Prince, these issues must be at the top of her agenda. The Prime Minister might be desperate for a trade deal but it should not come at the cost of compromising core British values and human rights.<\/p>\n<h2>Take action<\/h2>\n<p>Theresa May: Help stop execution of children in Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.bsd.net\/page\/s\/StopSaudiExecutions\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ReminderKSA-1-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ali, Dawood and Abdullah are facing imminent execution. They were arrested after allegedly participating in pro-democracy protests and sentenced to death. They were all children at the time. They were all tortured into \u2018confessions\u2019 and convicted in secret trials. <a href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.bsd.net\/page\/s\/StopSaudiExecutions\">Click here to take action.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia<\/h2>\n<p>Is Saudi Arabia really reforming?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/vision-2030\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vision-2030-Title-Image-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia claims to be modernising under its Vision 2030 programme, while it continues to execute children and peaceful protesters. Take a look at what reform really means, and sign our petition to end these illegal executions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reprieve.org.uk\/vision-2030\/\">All the facts and stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs May must end UK support for Saudi abuses and when she meets the Crown Prince, these issues must be at the top of her agenda&#8230; by Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Theresa May in Saudi Arabia just after 125th person executed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2017\/11\/29\/breaking-theresa-may-saudi-arabia-just-125th-person-executed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Theresa May in Saudi Arabia just after 125th person executed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theresa May arrived in Saudi Arabia today, just after they have executed their 125th person this year. 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