Two men were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday after a court rejected their appeals, according to coverage by RÚV. The two were convicted of multiple offences, including terrorism-linked charges tied to an overseas movement and a shooting attack on security forces. They were killed shortly after the highest court denied their appeal. One of the men was 14 when he was detained in December 2020, a London-based human rights group, Reprieve, told AFP. The group claims he was tortured into admitting to alleged charges. Reprieve also says the execution was part of retaliatory action by the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, against the man’s family. The group adds that Saudi security forces killed his older brother in 2011 and that two other people have received long prison terms. The rights group claims that in the crown prince’s kingdom, the death penalty is applied to opponents of all kinds, including minors. It says that since August last year, five men from Shia families in the country’s Eastern Province were executed for offences they were convicted of when they were children, after being linked to protests held in the Arab Spring 15 years earlier. Amnesty says Saudi Arabia is third worldwide, behind China and Iran, in the number of executions in recent years. The men have been executed following the highest court’s appeal rejection.