CNN has obtained exclusive documents from inside Saudi Arabia for the trials of a number of defendants who were executed in the largest mass execution in the history of the kingdom, CNN said.
According to the documents, 25 defendants who were sentenced to death were sentenced after three sessions in 2016, and indicated that 11 of the defendants were convicted of spying for Iran.
She said the 14 others were convicted of forming a terrorist cell during anti-government demonstrations in the Shi'ite city of Awamiya in 2011 and 2012.
According to the documents, CNN reported that some of the defendants had told the court that their confessions were false and that they had come under torture.
Charges of torture
At times, the defendants said that they knew nothing about confessions except their fingerprints, according to the documents, according to the documents, which were written by those alleged to have been tortured by them.
CNN said it had received no response to its numerous claims to respond to Saudi authorities.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia executed 37 people after being convicted of terrorism-related charges, bringing the number of executions this year to 80.
In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, "the execution of the death penalty was carried out in a number of perpetrators to adopt the extremist terrorist ideology and the formation of terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt the security and create chaos and provoke sectarian strife and damage to peace and social security.
In the same vein, the European Parliament criticized these executions and said they were appalling because they did not observe due process, obtained confessions by torture, and described the barbaric nature of executions.
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