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Man is executed by Saudi Arabia after ‘offensive’ photo was found on his phone

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June 15, 2021
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Man is executed by Saudi Arabia after ‘offensive’ photo was found on his phone following protests he took part in aged 17

  • Mustafa al-Darwish, 26, was executed on Tuesday after he was arrested in 2015
  • An ‘offensive’ photo was found on his phone following anti-government protests
  • When he was 17, he was caught up in Arab Spring protests with Shi’ite minority 
  • He later said he confessed to the crimes under torture to make beatings stop
  • His family discovered he had been put to death after reading news report online

By Anthony Harwood For Mailonline

Published: 17:15 BST, 15 June 2021 | Updated: 17:21 BST, 15 June 2021

A young man was put to death by Saudi Arabia yesterday after an ‘offensive’ photograph was found on his phone following anti-government protests he had taken part in as a teenager.

Mustafa al-Darwish, 26, was executed despite promises from the desert kingdom that the death penalty would no longer apply for offences committed when defendants were children.

As a 17-year-old, he had been caught up in Arab Spring protests among the country’s Shi’ite minority which swept through the Eastern Province region in 2011 and 2012.

Three years later, in 2015, he was arrested and accused of a range of offences such as ‘seeking to disrupt national cohesion through participation in more than 10 riots’.

Mustafa al-Darwish, 26, was executed by Saudi Arabia yesterday after an ‘offensive’ photograph was found on his phone following anti-government protests he had taken part in as a teenager

The then 20-year-old was released without charge, his family said, but police confiscated his phone and found a photograph which offended them.  

Mustafa was placed in solitary confinement and his family said he lost consciousness several times during brutal interrogation sessions.

He later said he confessed to the crimes under torture and recanted them in court saying he had only admitted to the offences to make the beatings stop.

Following his conviction he spent six years on Death Row before being executed on Tuesday.

His family, who only discovered he had been put to death after reading a news report online, said: ‘Six years ago, Mustafa was arrested with two of his friends in the streets of Tarout. The police released him without charge but confiscated his phone. We later found that there was a photograph on the phone that offended them.

As a 17-year-old, he had been caught up in Arab Spring protests among the country's Shi'ite minority which swept through the Eastern Province region in 2011 and 2012

As a 17-year-old, he had been caught up in Arab Spring protests among the country’s Shi’ite minority which swept through the Eastern Province region in 2011 and 2012

Three years later, in 2015, he was arrested and accused of a range of offences such as 'seeking to disrupt national cohesion through participation in more than 10 riots'

Three years later, in 2015, he was arrested and accused of a range of offences such as ‘seeking to disrupt national cohesion through participation in more than 10 riots’

‘Later they called us and told Mustafa to come and collect his phone, but instead of giving it back they detained him and our suffering began. How can they execute a boy because of a photograph on his phone? Since his arrest we have known nothing but pain. It is a living death for the whole family.’ 

At his subsequent trial the charge sheet made specific reference to a ‘photograph that was offensive to the security services’.

For the past five years Saudi Arabia has made repeated pledges not to execute anyone for offences committed when they were children.

There was an outcry when, despite the promises, six young such men formed part of a mass execution that saw 37 people put to death on April 23rd 2019.

In April 2020 the Saudi Human Rights Commission announced a Royal Decree extending the Juvenile Law and later insisted that ‘no one in Saudi Arabia will be executed for a crime committed as a minor’.

In February 2021, the Riyadh authorities told the UN Human Rights Council that ‘anyone who commits a death-eligible crime as a child’ will be subject to ‘a maximum sentence of ten years in a juvenile institution’.

But following Mustafa’s execution campaigners fear that other youngsters, including one who was just 14 at the time of his alleged crimes, could also die.

Reprieve Director Maya Foa said: ‘It is not enough for Saudi Arabia’s partners to ‘raise human rights issues’, as British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reportedly did on his recent visit to the Kingdom.

‘They need to raise specific cases, and make clear that executions for childhood crimes will not be tolerated. Otherwise Abdullah al-Howaiti, arrested aged 14 and sentenced to death at 17, could be next’.

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