Sheikh Nimr, ‘Martyr of Dignity’, to Be Commemorated
Saudi opposition groups will organize events from late December 2022 to January 10, 2023 to remember Sheikh Nimr, Mirat al-Jazeera website reported.
They will be held with the motto of “Martyr of Dignity” with the aim of introducing Martyr Nimr, the groups said in a statement.
They said that the senior cleric would always link dignity to martyrdom and believed that he would ultimately be martyred.
“Dignity is a sublime human right that no one has the right to take away from anyone,” the statement added.
It also criticized the Saudi rulers for oppression, killing and arresting people, dealing blows to religious values, and invading neighboring countries.
Saudi authorities announced on January 2, 2016 that they had killed the 56-year-old cleric along with 46 other prisoners.
It brought a swift reaction in his hometown in eastern Saudi Arabia, where Shia Muslims complain of marginalization, in neighboring Bahrain, across the Middle East and as far away as northern India.
Back in 2014, a special court in Riyadh had sentenced him to death for trumped charges of “sedition”, “disobedience” and “bearing arms”.
The so-called supreme court in Saudi Arabia confirmed the death sentence against the Shia cleric on October 26, 2015.
Sheikh Nimr had vociferously called for democracy in the kingdom and rallied anti-regime protests, and his killing portended other gross human rights violations that the Riyadh regime did not shy away from perpetration in the following years.
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