Hussein Abu al-Khair, 57, had eight children and was a driver for a wealthy Saudi. "We urge the Saudi government to halt al-Kheir's reported imminent execution and to comply with the Working Group's opinion by quashing his death sentence, releasing him immediately and unconditionally, and by ensuring that he receives medical care, compensation and other reparations," said spokesperson Liz Throssell. Mr Abu al-Khair's case was raised in the UK parliament in late November - with a Foreign Office minister answering an Urgent Question about a surge of executions in Saudi Arabia by saying that the authorities had "clearly" tortured him and describing his treatment as "abhorrent"