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Saudi Arabia to hang 15 Shi ite on charges of spying for Iran

Saudi Arabia to hang 15 Shi ite on charges of spying for Iran

DUBAI  – Saudi Arabia’s top court has upheld the death sentences of 14 men convicted of armed attacks, all of them from the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s Shi’ite Muslim minority, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Arabic-language Okaz newspaper also reported that another appeals court upheld the death sentences of 15 people convicted of spying for Iran.