Ten Days After the Execution of Journalist Turki Al-Jasser: Saudi Authorities Execute Two Brothers on Political Charges

London — June 24, 2025
Today, Tuesday, Saudi authorities carried out the execution of two Saudi brothers — Muajil and Suleiman bin Ibrahim bin Abdulrahman Al-Fawzan — on political charges and alleged links to unspecified terrorist organizations. These executions mark the 15th and 16th political executions since the beginning of the year.

These executions come just ten days after the execution of Saudi journalist Turki Al-Jasser, who was sentenced after a secret trial based on tweets from an anonymous account he allegedly managed — a clear escalation by the authorities in targeting dissent and silencing free voices.

Sanad Human Rights Organization highlights that trials in such cases lack transparency, with authorities systematically fabricating charges, falsifying evidence, and extracting forced confessions through torture or coercion — a pattern repeatedly documented by both local and international human rights groups. Saudi courts continue to issue death sentences based on these practices, without offering defendants a genuine opportunity for defense or independent judicial review.

In the midst of this ongoing wave of political executions, Saudi authorities previously executed citizen Dhafer Al-Shehri over a single tweet, as well as a Shiite citizen accused of joining Al-Qaeda — further evidence of the manipulation of charges to justify silencing government critics.

Sanad Human Rights Organization strongly condemns the Saudi authorities’ continued execution of individuals on dubious political charges and without fair trial guarantees, calling this a dangerous escalation of human rights violations in the Kingdom.

Sanad renews its call on the international community and human rights organizations to exert serious pressure on the Saudi government to halt executions of political opponents and activists, and to release all prisoners of conscience in the country.