Why did the Saudi government execute a 17-year-old?

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 Saudi Arabia last week executed Mutjaba al-Sweikat, 17, who had been accepted to Western Michigan University but was arrested before making it to US. He arrested for allegedly participating in mass protests. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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