Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr (Arabic: علي محمد باقر النمر; born 1994/1995) is a Saudi Arabian political prisoner who as a teenager participated in the Saudi Arabian protests during the Arab Spring. He was arrested in February 2012, sentenced to death in May 2014, and as of 23 September 2015, awaited ratification of his sentence by King Salman of Saudi Arabia, to be carried out by beheading and crucifixion (in that order). Al-Nimr's trial was called unfair by United Nations expert Christof Heyns and Amnesty International, who called for the execution to be stopped, as did French President François Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Ali al-Nimr is the nephew of Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, who was one of 47 executed during the 2016 Saudi Arabia mass execution. It is believed he will now be spared from execution following announcements from the Saudi government that people convicted as minors (under 18) are not to be executed.
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1994 (age 31) Al-Awamiyah, Saudi Arabia
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