Dubai: hanged in saudi has almost doubled under the Arab king salman and his son, the real ruler mohammed bin salmanActivist groups, detailing the torture and other cases on Tuesday, said human right Violation.
capital punishment According to a report by Reprieve and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), the average executions have increased from 70.8 executions a year from 2010 to 2014 to 129.5 since King Salman took power in 2015.
After verifying official announcements with investigations and interviews with lawyers, family members and activists, the NGO said more than 1,000 death sentences have been carried out under the current leadership.
Saudi Arabia executed 147 people last year, the report said, a number confirmed by an AFP tally compiled from government announcements.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading executioners, announced the execution of 81 people in a single day last March, mostly for terrorism-related crimes.
The country has seen rapid social reforms in recent years but activists allege Crown Prince Mohammed Also overseeing strict action on critics.
“Every data point in this report is a human life taken,” said Maya Foa, director of Reprieve.
“The Saudi death penalty machine chows down on children, protesters, vulnerable women in domestic service, drug mules and people whose only ‘crime’ was carrying banned books or talking to foreign journalists.”
Crown Prince Mohammed said in an interview with The Atlantic magazine last March that the kingdom had banned the death penalty except in cases of homicide or when someone “endangers the lives of many people,” according to a transcript published by state media. was “delivered” from punishment. ,
Tuesday’s report said the six bloodiest years of executions in Saudi’s recent history have all occurred under the current leadership.
“This bloody route is being taken by the Saudi authorities for purposes of intimidation and political repression,” said Taha Al-Hajji, ESOHR’s legal director.
“Reports of covert executions from late 2022 are extremely worrying.”
Since 2013, at least 15 people have been executed for crimes committed when they were minors. 11 out of 15 were hanged after 2015.
The last known child defendant to be executed was Mustafa al-Darwish in June 2021.
Born on 19 September 1994, al-Darwish was arrested in 2015 and later charged with crimes related to his alleged participation in protests when he was 17 years old.
“He was killed without any warning to his family, who came to know about his death,” the report said.
Besides minors, at least 31 women were lynched from 2010 to 2021, including 23 foreign nationals and 13 domestic workers.
The report states that these include Indonesian domestic worker Tuti Tursilawati, who “was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after killing her employer on attempted rape following a long period of sexual abuse. “
“On 29 October 2018, after eight years in prison, Tuti was executed by beheading”.
The 58-page document also alleges “systemic” torture and due process violations, including unfair trials and torture of child defendants and women.
capital punishment According to a report by Reprieve and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), the average executions have increased from 70.8 executions a year from 2010 to 2014 to 129.5 since King Salman took power in 2015.
After verifying official announcements with investigations and interviews with lawyers, family members and activists, the NGO said more than 1,000 death sentences have been carried out under the current leadership.
Saudi Arabia executed 147 people last year, the report said, a number confirmed by an AFP tally compiled from government announcements.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading executioners, announced the execution of 81 people in a single day last March, mostly for terrorism-related crimes.
The country has seen rapid social reforms in recent years but activists allege Crown Prince Mohammed Also overseeing strict action on critics.
“Every data point in this report is a human life taken,” said Maya Foa, director of Reprieve.
“The Saudi death penalty machine chows down on children, protesters, vulnerable women in domestic service, drug mules and people whose only ‘crime’ was carrying banned books or talking to foreign journalists.”
Crown Prince Mohammed said in an interview with The Atlantic magazine last March that the kingdom had banned the death penalty except in cases of homicide or when someone “endangers the lives of many people,” according to a transcript published by state media. was “delivered” from punishment. ,
Tuesday’s report said the six bloodiest years of executions in Saudi’s recent history have all occurred under the current leadership.
“This bloody route is being taken by the Saudi authorities for purposes of intimidation and political repression,” said Taha Al-Hajji, ESOHR’s legal director.
“Reports of covert executions from late 2022 are extremely worrying.”
Since 2013, at least 15 people have been executed for crimes committed when they were minors. 11 out of 15 were hanged after 2015.
The last known child defendant to be executed was Mustafa al-Darwish in June 2021.
Born on 19 September 1994, al-Darwish was arrested in 2015 and later charged with crimes related to his alleged participation in protests when he was 17 years old.
“He was killed without any warning to his family, who came to know about his death,” the report said.
Besides minors, at least 31 women were lynched from 2010 to 2021, including 23 foreign nationals and 13 domestic workers.
The report states that these include Indonesian domestic worker Tuti Tursilawati, who “was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after killing her employer on attempted rape following a long period of sexual abuse. “
“On 29 October 2018, after eight years in prison, Tuti was executed by beheading”.
The 58-page document also alleges “systemic” torture and due process violations, including unfair trials and torture of child defendants and women.