Human rights groups warned this week that prominent political activist Israa al-Ghomgham could soon be executed by the Saudi government.
Al-Ghomgham was arrested along with her husband in December 2015 over her support for protests against the authorities in Riyadh. She has spent the past 32 months in detention.
A video shared online over the past few days purported to show al-Ghomgham's body after her execution. However, the footage turned out to be three years old.
For now, "her life is safe," Ali Adubisi, the director of the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Adubisi said that al-Ghomgham's trial began on August 6, and that she could face execution by beheading on October 28 if found guilty. Some Saudi lawyers have offered to work on her case pro bono, the ESOHR reported. [Deutsche Welle] Read more
