Saudi prisoner ‘executed and crucified’

A Saudi Arabia flag flies behind barbed wire in the backyard of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.

A Saudi prisoner has been executed and crucified, according to a statement by the country’s state media.

The man was one of 37 people executed on Tuesday on charges of terrorism.

The statement added that the men were charged with “adopting terrorist extremist ideology, forming terrorist cells” and harming the “peace and security of society”.

One of the men executed was aged just 16 at the time of his arrest, according to Amnesty International.

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