As U.S. President Joe Biden considers a trip to Saudi Arabia, reprieve highlights calls to annul the death sentence of Abdullah al-Howaiti and 'abolish the imposition of the death penalty for children for all crimes.'
the Saudi government to annul his sentence"because he did not receive a fair trial, as credible reports that he was tortured into making a false confession when he was 14 years old were not investigated."a trip to Saudi Arabia and encouraged Biden to review what a trio of U.N. experts has recently said in response to the case.
"Abdullah will never get back the teenage years he spent fearing for his life, but it's not too late for the Saudi courts to do the right thing," Basyouni added."The world is watching.
Al-Howaiti eventually signed the confession prepared for him, after which authorities transferred him to a social observation home in Tabuk. He told another investigator there that his confession had been forcibly extracted. He said he was then transferred to a prison cell, where the criminal investigations interrogators from Tabuk arrived after midnight, blindfolded him, and transferred him back to the criminal investigation department.
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