Saudi Arabia Execution - A listener's perspective - 19/10/26

The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond · Oct 19, 2026 · 5m

George Reid – in Roscommon wants to talk about a man who was executed in Saudi Arabia. He doesn’t think we should be doing any business with that county. (The Guardian reported last week that Youssef al-Manasif - a young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was aged 15 to 17, say human rights groups, in the latest example of the kingdom’s surging use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Youssef al-Manasif was arrested in 2017 and accused of crimes including joining demonstrations for religious freedom by the Shia minority and…