Saudi Arabia has executed 81 people in the past 24 hours, the largest execution in the kingdom's modern history, for crimes ranging from killings to alleged ...
The number of those executed on Saturday — 81 — surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand ...
Or if someone threatens the life of many people, that means he has to be punished by the death penalty." It also publicly nailed the severed body and head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. A two-week siege that followed ended with an official death toll of 229 killed. It did not say how the prisoners were executed, though death-row inmates typically are beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Such crucifixions after execution, while rare, do occur in the kingdom. A Saudi-led coalition has been battling the Iran-backed Houthis since 2015 in neighboring Yemen in an effort to restore the internationally recognized government to power.
Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on Saturday, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, for terrorism and other offenses including holding "deviant beliefs," ...
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Death penalty applied for range of charges in largest known mass execution carried out kingdom's modern history.
The death penalty applied for a range of charges in the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom’s modern history. The death penalty applied for a range of charges in the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom’s modern history.
Officials say those executed were convicted of charges including terrorism and holding 'deviant beliefs'
It has faced strong criticism of its restrictive laws on political and religious expression, and the implementation of the death penalty, including for defendants arrested when they were minors. Saudi Arabia’s human rights records have been under an increasing scrutiny from rights groups and western allies since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported in the kingdom in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.
Saudi Arabia executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups on Saturday (local time), the largest known mass ...
"These executions are the opposite of justice," he said. Ali Adubusi, the director of the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, alleged that some of those executed had been tortured and faced trials "carried out in secret". The kingdom also said some of those executed were members of al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and also backers of Yemen's Houthi rebels.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced the executions saying they included people 'convicted of various crimes, including the murdering of innocent men, ...
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry confirmed 81 men were put to death today for committing "various crimes including murdering innocent, men, ...
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