Saudi Arabia Beheads Seven Men For Armed Robbery A Week After Families Appealed To The King For Clemency

Seven men convicted of armed robbery have been publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia after the king rejected their families' appeals for clemency.




Human rights campaigners had called for the sentences to be quashed because the men were juveniles when they were arrested.



One
of the men told The Associated Press last month he was only 15 when he
was arrested as part of a ring that stole