Riyadh, Dec. 30 -- A Saudi Arabia court sentenced a man to death for attacking a Spanish theatre group while performing in Riyadh, according to state-run media.

Saudi Arabia's Penal Court handed another man a 12-year-and-half prison sentence for helping the main defendant commit the crime in November, Efe news reported quoted al-Ekhbariya channel as saying on Sunday.

During the trial that began on December 19, the man sentenced to death was accused of terrorist acts and attempt to prevent the organization and celebration of leisure activities in the ultraconservative country.

The convict, of Yemeni nationality according to al-Ekhbariya, attacked actors with a knife, leaving three of them injured.

The attack was carried out on the orde...