🇸🇦 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.