Saudi court sentences 8 for spying for Iran

Seven others were sentenced to a total jail term of 58 years for having "associated and cooperated with people working in the embassy of Iran", it added.

The broadcaster did not identify the people nor explain with which Iranian embassy they were accused of cooperating. Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia snapped diplomatic relations with Shia-dominated Iran following 2016 attacks by demonstrators on its missions in Iran after the kingdom executed revered Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2020

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