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Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Sheikh Nimr. Boustan Street in Tehran was renamed Nimr Baqir al-Nimr Street soon after the execution. Execution of Nimr al-Nimr Shaykh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia who was among 47 people executed on 2 January 2016 for terrorism offences. Others executed included Sunnis who had been convicted of involvement in terror attacks linked to al-Qaeda which took place in 2003. Various demonstrations against the execution of al-Nimr in different countries of the globe have been reporting by the different news channel since his execution. In October 2014, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court approved a death