Human Rights Organization warns Saudi Arabia on breaking record of executions.
Tasnim news agency, the European Saudi Human Rights Organization has issued warnings about the possibility of recording a record number of executions in 2022 by Saudi Arabia.
According to Al-Khalij Al-Jadeed, this human rights organization announced that the Saudi authorities executed 120 people in the first 6 months of 2022, which is almost double the number recorded last year.
According to the report of this human rights organization, the increase in the number of executions in this country takes place despite the promises of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to reduce the death penalty.
The European Saudi Human Rights Organization announced that the number of executions up to June 2022 exceeded the number recorded in 2020 and 2021 combined.
The largest execution occurred in March 2022, when Saudi authorities executed 81 people, marking the largest mass execution in Saudi history. 41 of those executed were Saudi Shiite protesters and residents of Al-Ahsa and Qatif regions in eastern Arabia. The execution of this number of Shiites in one day in Saudi Arabia has never been seen before.
According to the European Saudi Human Rights Organization, 101 people who were executed in the first half of 2022 are Saudi citizens.
The organization noted that if the current pace of executions in Saudi Arabia continues, it is likely that these cases will exceed the record 186 executions in 2019. It was April of the same year.
The number of executions carried out in the first half of 2022 shows that the promises of the Saudi authorities to reform the use of the death penalty are empty and false.
The Saudi legal system has been heavily criticized by human rights defenders and foreign investors.
Recently, Amnesty International, in its annual report on executions around the world, announced that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are at the top of the list of Arab countries that carried out the most executions in 2021.
This shows that last year, Saudi Arabia used execution as a tool to suppress minorities, critics and opponents.
Some human rights organizations announced that Saudi Arabia plans to execute 51 prisoners.
Saudi Arabia has a black record in the category of human rights, and over the past years, numerous reports of extrajudicial executions, torture, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, detention of political and human rights activists, and suppression of the legitimate demands of religious minorities inside Saudi Arabia have been leaked.
Human Rights Watch has documented serious violations of due process in courts and the criminal justice system against defendants in criminal cases, including long periods of detention without charge or trial, pressure to sign confessions.
Many international human rights organizations, especially in the United States and in Europe, have expressed concern that loopholes in Saudi laws allow judges in this country to continue issuing the death penalty.
