Religious freedom conditions in Saudi Arabia are particularly severe, as the government prohibits the public practice of any religion other than Islam and forbids all non-Muslim houses of worship. Judicial authorities penalize religious dissenters with arbitrary and egregiously long prison sentences, and they have executed hundreds of Shi’a Muslims for protesting religious freedom restrictions. State textbooks also continue to promote intolerance directed at different religious beliefs. 

Source: Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba and pray at the Grand mosque at the end of their Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, RUETERS / Bektas

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