The demise penalty utilized for a variety of costs within the largest recognized mass execution carried out within the kingdom’s fashionable historical past.
Saudi Arabia has executed 81 males over the previous 24 hours, together with seven Yemenis and one Syrian nationwide, on costs together with “allegiance to international terrorist organisations” and holding “deviant beliefs”, state information company Saudi Press Company stated, within the largest recognized mass execution carried out within the kingdom in its fashionable historical past.
The quantity dwarfed the 67 executions reported within the kingdom in 2021 and the 27 in 2020.
“These people … have been convicted of assorted crimes together with murdering harmless males, girls and kids,” SPA stated on Saturday, citing an announcement from the inside ministry.
“Crimes dedicated by these people additionally embody pledging allegiance to international terrorist organisations, akin to ISIS [ISIL], al-Qaeda and the Houthis,” it added.
Some travelled to battle zones to affix “terrorist organisations”, based on the SPA.
“The accused have been supplied with the precise to an lawyer and have been assured their full rights underneath Saudi regulation throughout the judicial course of,” it stated.
“The dominion will proceed to take a strict and unwavering stance towards terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the steadiness of your complete world,” the report added.
The boys included 37 Saudi nationals who have been discovered responsible in a single case for making an attempt to assassinate safety officers and concentrating on police stations and convoys, the report added.
Saudi Arabia’s final mass execution was in January 2016, when the dominion executed 47 individuals, together with a distinguished opposition Shia chief who had rallied demonstrations within the kingdom.
In 2019, the dominion beheaded 37 Saudi residents, most of them minority Shia, in a mass execution throughout the nation for alleged “terrorism”-related crimes.
Saudi Arabia’s human rights information have been underneath rising scrutiny from rights teams and Western allies because the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
It has confronted sturdy criticism of its restrictive legal guidelines on political and spiritual expression, and the implementation of the demise penalty, together with for defendants arrested once they have been minors.
Saudi Arabia denies accusations of human rights abuses and says it protects its nationwide safety based on its legal guidelines.
SPA stated the accused have been supplied with the precise to a lawyer and have been assured their full rights underneath Saudi regulation throughout the judicial course of.