The Saudi Interior Ministry has said 47 people convicted of what the ministry called terrorism have been executed. Prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr was among those executed, the Interior Ministry said in the statement.
Talking to IRNA on Saturday, Mufti Gulzar Ahmed Naimi, head of Pakistan's 'Jamaat Ahle Haram' said tyrant Saudi rulers feel threatened by the opposition leaders and in order to stay in power for longer period they are executing them.