A year has passed and still the families wait to receive the bodies. At the time, they did not even know their loved ones had been executed.
At various locations across Saudi Arabia on April 23, 2019, 37 men knelt as others stood above them and brought down four feet of shining, curved steel on to their exposed necks.
Officials pinned one headless corpse to a pole. It was a warning. The men had been found guilty of terror offences. More specifically, so said the Saudi Press Agency, for ‘their adoption of terrorist and extremist thinking, forming terrorism cells to sow corruption and disrupt security, spread chaos, incite sectarian discord, harm peace and social security, and attack police centers [sic] using explosive bombs’.