A Saudi faces the death penalty for accusing him of committing a crime when he was a teenager, What's the story?

A Saudi court upheld a death sentence for a Saudi accused of participating in the robbery and murder of a policeman when she was 14 years old, amid human rights condemnation of the ruling.

A Saudi court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of a Saudi accused of participating in the robbery and murder of a policeman as a child, in a retrial, after a similar first ruling issued in 2019, according to two human rights organizations.

And in 2017, the authorities stood Abdullah Al-Hwaiti when he was 14 years old, and accused him of participating in the theft of a gold store and the killing of a policeman in the city of Duba in the Tabuk region of the Kingdom.

In October 2019, he was sentenced to death for two counts of murder and armed robbery, while five other defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Last November, the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence and ordered a retrial of the case.

For its part, the human rights organization ALQST condemned the ruling issued by the Tabuk Criminal Court, "despite the previous Supreme Court's overturning of the previous ruling, after an unfair trial."

She stressed, "the need to abolish the death penalty and the need for the authorities to respect their promises to stop the execution of minors."

In April 2020, Saudi Arabia announced the abolition of all death sentences issued against those convicted of crimes committed while they were minors, but this abolition does not apply to crimes that fall under the threshold of enmity and retribution.

The limit of enmity is when a person commits crimes of robbery or murder using force, including weapons, and the limit of retribution is the punishment that requires the offender to be punished in the same way he did.