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Saudi Arabia executions
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November 17, 2024, 5:39 pm
Record 101 foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia so far in 2024, tally finds
Figure nearly triple the counts for 2022 and 2023; latest sentence carried out for Yemeni national convicted of drug smuggling; kingdom executed 274 people in total over past year
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AFP
October 9, 2024, 10:18 pm
Saudi Arabia narrowly misses out on UN Human Rights Council seat
Riyadh falls seven votes shy of Marshall Islands, losing out on chance to join influential UN body; miss comes as rights group says executions in kingdom at all-time high
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Michelle Nichols
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Pesha Magid
September 29, 2023, 4:20 pm
Relatives of Saudis facing execution urge ‘ashamed’ crown prince to act
After Mohammed bin Salman blames ‘bad laws’ for harsh rulings, brother of man sentenced to death for social media posts says de facto ruler can ‘cancel them’
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AFP
June 17, 2023, 7:21 pm
Jamal Khashoggi’s widow files lawsuit against NSO Group
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi says Israeli tech company used its Pegasus software to infiltrate her phone in months leading up to her husband’s murder
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ToI Staff
June 11, 2023, 7:54 pm
Saudi Arabia executes three convicted of slaying officer, founding ‘terrorist cell’
Kingdom accused men of killing officer in Riyadh, then setting fire to vehicle with body inside; authorities have executed 52 people since start of year
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AFP
June 7, 2023, 10:18 pm
Saudi-PGA golf deal marks dazzling turnaround for former pariah crown prince
MBS accused of ‘sportswashing’ in latest and perhaps most dramatic move by to wield his kingdom’s oil wealth in advancing its economy and influence
By
Ellen Knickmeyer
May 29, 2023, 4:59 pm
Saudi Arabia executes two Bahraini men convicted of belonging to militant group
The two were detained in May 2015 for belonging to an unidentified group that allegedly smuggles explosives into country
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AP
May 16, 2023, 10:11 am
Amnesty slams state ‘killing sprees’; China and Iran top the list
2022 figure for 20 countries known to have executed people shows 53% yearly increase; Saudi Arabia put ‘staggering’ 81 to death in a single day
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AFP
March 13, 2022, 4:08 pm
Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia after mass execution — report
Halt comes after Riyadh put 81 people to death over various crimes, in largest known public killing in kingdom’s modern history, with over three dozen said to be Shiites
By
Amir Vahdat
March 12, 2022, 6:03 pm
Saudis execute 81 for terror-related crimes, in largest mass execution on record
Riydah says convicts, all put to death in one day, committed ‘multiple heinous crimes’; says some were linked to Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Houthi rebels
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Agencies
October 28, 2021, 9:26 am
Saudis release nephew of executed Shiite cleric after nearly a decade
Ali al-Nimr’s uncle Nimr al-Nimr was put to death in 2016, in mass execution that sparked downturn in ties between Tehran and Riyadh
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AP
June 16, 2021, 8:29 am
Saudi Arabia executes man accused of joining anti-government Shiite ‘rebellion’
Amnesty says unclear if Mustafa bin Hashim bin Isa al-Darwish was executed for crimes committed while still a minor despite kingdom ending practice, slams trial as ‘deeply flawed’
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Aya Batrawy
April 21, 2021, 8:20 am
Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia top 2020 global executioners list
Amnesty says while numbers dropped due to pandemic, Middle East figures show region is ‘truly out of sync with the rest of the world’; China executes thousands, but classifies info
By
Isabel Debre
April 10, 2021, 6:21 pm
Saudi Arabia executes 3 soldiers for high treason, collusion with unnamed enemy
Killings come as a Saudi-led military campaign intensifies in neighboring Yemen
By
Anuj Chopra
January 18, 2021, 2:59 pm
Saudi Arabia reports dramatic drop in executions in 2020
Kingdom’s Human Rights Commission says 27 sentenced to death last year, a decrease of 85% over 2019; drop partially due to moratorium on death penalty for drug offenses
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