The new year and the executions in Saudi Arabia are twice.
The AFP published a report revealing that the number of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2022 was twice as high as last year.
According to the statistics revealed today (Friday, November 18) by the AFP, Saudi Arabia executed twice as many people in 2022 than last year; International human rights organizations strongly condemn this sharp increase.
According to the report of “Al-Mayadeen” network website, and according to the report of Saudi Arabia’s official news agency “WAS”, yesterday (Thursday, November 17) Saudi Arabia arrested a Saudi and a Jordanian citizen after they were convicted of smuggling illegal amphetamine tablets in Al-Jawf region. This country executed.
According to the statistics compiled by Agence France-Presse based on official data, these two executions increased the number of executions carried out in 2022 to 138.
And Saudi Arabia executed 69 death sentences in 2021. 27 executions took place in 2020 during the peak of the spread of the Corona virus in Saudi Arabia, and 187 people were executed in 2019.
The publication of the news of two executions yesterday takes place only a week after Saudi Arabia announced the execution of two death sentences against Pakistani heroin traffickers; This was the first drug-related execution in nearly three years in this country.
Amnesty International said in a statement at the time that the recent executions showed “disrespect for the official moratorium on drug-related crimes” announced by the Saudi Human Rights Commission in January 2021.
