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DUBAI: Amnesty Inter­­national accused Saudi Arabia on Thursday of using a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as “a weapon of repression” to imprison peaceful critics, activists, journalists, clerics and Shias, including some who were sentenced to death and executed. The London-based rights organisation examined court documents and spoke to activists and lawyers for its 53-page report, which sheds light …

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