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2016 in Saudi Arabia

The following lists events that happened in 2016 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks with reporters during a press conference with Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.

The following lists events that happened in 2016 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

  • Monarch: Salman

  • Crown Prince: Muhammad bin Nayef

  • January 2 - 47 alleged terrorists are executed by the Saudi state, including leader of the anti-government Shia movement, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

  • January 2 - The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran, Iran, is ransacked and set on fire by protesters against al-Nimr's execution.

  • January 3 - Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran after the events that happened on January 2.

  • January 4 - Saudi Arabia announces it will end all air traffic and trade links with Iran, demanding Iran to "act like a normal country" before severed diplomatic relations can be restored.

  • January 5 - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant threatens to destroy Saudi Arabia's Tarfiya and al-Ha'ir prisons, holding ISIL prisoners.

  • January 12 - Saudi human rights activist Samar Badawi is arrested by Saudi police.

  • April 16 - Mariam Fardous became the first ever Arab woman and only the third woman in history to dive in the North Pole.

  • October 25 - Shooting left 2 security forces dead in Dammam city.

  • 2 January – Nimr al-Nimr, Shia religious leader (born 1959).

  • 2 January – Faris al-Zahrani, (born 1977).

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