Death Sentence on Ali al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia
- Submitted by: Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute, Scottish National Party.
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Motion reference: S5M-00895
That the Parliament notes the continuing and growing threat to Ali al-Nimr, who is on death row in Saudi Arabia and was sentenced to death in 2012 for anti-government activity even though he was only 17 at the time; notes that observers believe that the implementation of the sentence may be imminent despite a worldwide outcry against his sentence, against the use of the death penalty and in support of international law, which, it understands, forbids the execution of anyone whose alleged crimes were committed under the age of 18; recalls that there have been 108 judicial executions in Saudi Arabia already in 2016, following 158 last year, and calls on the Saudi Arabian Government to remit the sentence and to cease the practice of capital and corporal punishment in keeping with international norms.
Supported by:
Miles Briggs, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Linda Fabiani, John Finnie, Kenneth Gibson, Jenny Gilruth, Maurice Golden, Patrick Harvie, Clare Haughey, Richard Leonard, Richard Lochhead, Richard Lyle, Gordon MacDonald, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Ivan McKee, Stuart McMillan, Alex Neil, Ash Regan, Maree Todd, David Torrance, Sandra White