 Among the 47 people killed was Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.The execution was the largest carried out in the kingdom since 1980.On April 23, 2019, the Saudi Interior Ministry stated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 37 imprisoned civilians who had been convicted, mostly on the basis of confessions obtained under torture or written by the accused's torturers, for terrorism-related allegations in 6 provinces in the country.