Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment

(asked on 19th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 22nd December 2017

We remain concerned about the cases of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher. We last raised their cases with the Government of Saudi Arabia in July. Our expectation remains that they will not be executed. We continue to follow their cases closely.

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