On April 23, 2019, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 37 imprisoned civilians who had been convicted, mostly on the basis of confessions obtained under torture or written by the accused's torturers,[1][2] for terrorism-related allegations in 6 provinces in the country.[3][4][5][6] Fourteen of the people executed had been convicted in relation to their participation in the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests in Qatif, mostly on the basis of torture-induced confessions.[2][7] The executions were carried out by beheading,[4][8] and two of the bodies were publicly hung from a pole.[9][4] According to Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry the convicts were all Saudi nationals.[5] Thirty two of those executed belonged to the country's Shia minority.[10]