UN rights chief condemns ‘shocking’ Saudi mass executions

BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.’s human rights chief is calling Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 37 men, including three who were sentenced as minors, “shocking” and “abhorrent.”
Michelle Bachelet’s office said Wednesday the beheadings in six cities across Saudi Arabia were carried out Tuesday despite repeated warnings from rights officials about lack of due process.
The men mostly belonged to the minority Shiite branch of Islam and had been convicted of te