According to media reports in Saudi Arabia that the UK authorities referred to the trial of 32 people, most of them Shiite minority, accused of spying for Iran.
The defendants face charges including treason and espionage cell formation in cooperation with the Iranian intelligence and the disclosure of sensitive data on military sites.
Most of the defendants from the restive eastern region in Saudi Arabia, as well as an Iranian citizen and another Afghan.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the past few weeks.
Saudi Arabia severed ties with Iran in early January in the wake of the storm the last group of protesters angry at its embassy in Tehran after the four of them Saudi Shia cleric Nimr execution.
Saudi officials insist that Sheikh Panther convicted of terrorism-related offenses, but Iran's supreme leader said he was executed just for criticizing the royal family.
"Sectarian conflict"
Saudi media reported that the defendants who appeared before specializing in the capital, Riyadh criminal court had been arrested in 2013.
It is accused of a number of prominent figures known among the Shiites have nothing to do with politics, including an elderly college professor and a pediatrician and banker and a man of religion, according to the Reuters news agency.
Eastern Province and includes most of the Shiite Muslims in Saudi Arabia, and they make up less than 15 percent of the population, many of whom allege that they are being discriminated against.
Rarely tolerate Saudi Arabia with the opposition, in the period between 2011 and 2013, more than 20 people were shot dead by security forces and arrested hundreds.
A number of policemen were also killed in the shootings and the firebombing.
Saudi security forces killed a suspect in a raid in the town in the Eastern Province
Source BBC / BBC Arabic
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