🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it had executed a man convicted of charges he allegedly committed at 14: befriending people who were detained or wanted by the state, according to court documents reviewed by Human Rights Watch. 🔸Saudi Arabia banned executions for crimes committed as minors in 2020, except under its counterterrorism law, which HRW says it uses to silence dissent. 🔸Hassan Zaki al-Faraj was arrested in 2017, held in solitary confinement for six months and sentenced to death on a confession his lawyers say was extracted through torture. 🔸He is the second man executed this year for alleged childhood offenses, after Ali al-Subaiti, whose charges included joining a protest at age 12. 🔸Another man, Yousef al-Manasif now faces imminent execution for protesting the treatment of Saudi Arabia's Shia minority and attending funerals at 15 and 16. At least three more such men remain on death row. The executions come as Washington, London, and Paris draw closer to Riyadh. US and British tankers are refueling Saudi jets in the kingdom's air war on Yemen, and the Trump administration struck a record $142 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia last year. French President Emmanuel Macron is touring the Gulf this week.

💢 A Saudi airstrike on a family home in Yemen's Saada province killed at least 10 people on Sunday, including five children and three women, local media reported. The strike hit the home of Ali al-Qahm in the al-Tawila area of Sahar district, destroying most of the house. Sanaa's National Human Rights Commission put the toll at 10 killed and 23 wounded, most of them women and children, and said the search under the rubble was continuing. Footage aired by Al-Masirah shows men digging through the rubble with their hands. Saudi Arabia has not commented on the strike. The kingdom resumed its air war last month, with US and British tankers refueling its jets. Before Sunday's strike, the Health Ministry in Sanaa had reported 107 people killed and 278 wounded since Sept. 3.