The militant group, which has claimed responsibility for attacks in the kingdom and stepped up operations in neighbouring Yemen, singled out the al-Ha'ir and Tarfiya prisons where many al Qaeda and Islamic State supporters have been detained.
"The Islamic State always seeks to free prisoners, but we calculate that the ending of the issues of prisoners will not happen except with the eradication of the rule of tyrants, and then destroying their prisons and razing them to the ground," it said in an article posted online on Tuesday.
Prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was among 47 people put to death by Saudi Arabia. This caused tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Thus, diplomatic ties between the two countries were cut.
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