Saudi Arabia has executed 213 people so far in 2024, more than it has in any other calendar year on record, as the kingdom competes for a seat at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). According to the London-based rights group Reprieve, which documents the death penalty worldwide, the largest recorded figure prior to this year was 196 in 2022, followed by 184 in 2019.
“As the world’s attention fixates on horror elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is clearing death row with a bloodbath,” Reprieve’s deputy director, Harriet McCulloch, told MEE.
“The Kingdom smashed its own grim record for most people executed in a year in the first nine months of 2024,” she added. “With 213 executions and counting, death row prisoners are at greater risk than ever before, their families desperately awaiting news of their fate in the news.”
The executions are taking place under the government of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, the kingdom’s prime minister and de facto leader, who pledged in a 2018 interview to minimise capital punishment.
And yet Iran is America’s greatest adversary in the Axis of Evil somehow.
With Israel and Saudi Arabia the USA certainly has some lovely allies.
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The busiest man in Saudi Arabia
MBS should be stuffed into a suitcase and cast into the ocean
Hmmm wishing someone death in opposition to a post talking about death penalty… HHMMMM…
Was Guinness there to record it and make it official?
Yes, but they have a thing about journalists reporting about em …
Eh, question… what’s their charges? Murder? Treason?
The official human rights authority in the kingdom, the Saudi Human Rights Commission, also falsely claimed that child defendant Mustafa al-Darwish, who was sentenced to death for protest-related offences, was over 19 at the time of the crimes.
But Reprieve and ESOHR provided evidence that proved he was in fact under 18. Darwish was executed on 15 June 2021 despite the evidence.
What…
As long as the majority of Muslims want Shariah Law it makes no difference whether it is an absolute monarchy or a democracy. There’s a lot of crimes that require capital punishment in Islam.
Depending on where you live, even in the West, capital punishment is popular.
No. It absolutely makes a difference if a state is free or ruled by some tyrant. Saudi Arabia here is a prime example.
Some stats that were hard to find: https://imgur.com/a/executions-by-country-2012-SYIwN
