Murtaja Qureiris

Murtaja Qureiris (Arabic: مرتجى قريريص Murtajā Qurayrīṣ; born 24 October 2000) is a Saudi Arabian activist and member of the minority Shia. Qureiris was accused by the Saudi Government of joining a "terror group" and "sowing sedition", and was arrested in September 2014, when he was 13. According to The Guardian, he has been periodically held in solitary confinement. In June 2019, Amnesty International asked Saudi Arabia to rule out the death penalty for Qureiris and other teenagers who were arrested in 2014.

In response to a 2017 inquiry from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Saudi government stated that the death penalty "can only be imposed for the most serious offenses and subject to the strictest controls."

The European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights found that Qureiris is a member of Shia minority. Among the 37 executed in April 2019, two were executed for crimes committed as a minor. He was accused of taking part in anti-Saudi government protests during 2011, and also of throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station after his brother was killed by Saudi forces in a protest in 2011. Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East research director, has claimed that Saudi Arabia actively uses the death penalty for minors.