Saudi Arabia executes man who allegedly committed crimes as a minor - CNN

There is no mention of al-Darwish's age in the SPA report.

Reprieve said in a statement that al-Darwish's family received no advance notice of the execution and found out afterward by reading the news online.

The execution happened despite the fact that the state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) said in a statement in April 2020 that Saudi Arabia was abolishing the death penalty for people who committed crimes as minors.

The statement said anyone who received a death sentence after being convicted of crimes they committed as a minor would instead be given a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a juvenile detention facility.

However, it was unclear when the decision would be implemented.

The decree was not published in official Saudi state media.

At the time of the announcement, there were hopes the decree could potentially spare several men from the country's Shia minority, who allegedly committed crimes as minors, from the death penalty.

Ali al-Nimr, an imprisoned anti-government protester, was the most prominent of these.