Abdullah al-Derazi is at imminent risk of execution. Abdullah al-Derazi was under the age of 18 at the time of his alleged crimes. Abdullah al-Derazi, a member of the country’s Shia minority, was convicted and sentenced to death for his alleged participation in violent attacks and possession of illegal weapons during anti-government protests in 2011 and 2012 after a grossly unfair trial that relied on a torture-tainted “confession”. On 21 August 2025, Saudi authorities executed Jalal Labbad, another young man sentenced to death for alleged crimes he committed as a child, raising serious fears for Abdullah al-Derazi. Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court upheld both young men’s sentences around the same time without notifying their families or lawyers. Saudi Arabia’s King should not ratify Abdullah al-Derazi’s death sentence and should call on the competent authorities to quash his conviction and order a fair retrial without recourse to the death penalty.
