JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia's prosecutor has demanded the execution of five human rights activists from the eastern region of the kingdom in a "terrorism case" to be handled by the judiciary, including Israel al-Ghamgam.

This came on Wednesday from human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, reported Reuters.

The first Saudi woman who is facing execution is being hanged for her human rights activities, including charges for incitement to demonstration and moral support for the rioters.

"Every execution is gruesome, but it's terrible to carry out activists like Esra al-Ghamgam, not even accused of violence," said Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Human Rights Watch in the Middle East.

The London-based Al-Qisayyat Human Rights Support Organization issued this week's decision on the Israel issue and a Saudi government telecommunications agency has not responded to Reuters's request.

Activists said the process was underway and social media reports denied that the executions had been carried out.

While Saudi Arabia implemented a number of social and economic reforms, such as allowing women to drive, reforms were accompanied by tough measures against a large number of Saudi's. The authorities have imprisoned dozens of intellectuals, clergymen and activists during the past year, including women who defended the right of women to drive. Kingdom.

Esra al-Ghamgam is a well-known Saudi activist who documented mass arrests in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia from 2011 and was arrested in her home with her husband in December 2015.

The Shia, though Saudi, are secularists, but human rights activists say the kingdom treats its Shi citizens as pro-Iranians and puts their social protests in the context of tension with Iran, which accuses it of fueling unrest.

The eastern region of the kingdom is the richest oil, but according to activists suffers from a broad marginalization of the government.