Saudi Arabia executed seven people today, including five for drug trafficking, the official Saudi news agency announced.
Thus, the number of executions in Saudi Arabia during 2024 rose to 236, according to AFP data.
"Yahja Lutfulah, Ali Azib, Ahmed Ali and Salem Nahari" were executed today in Asir, in the southwest of the Saudi kingdom, for "hashish smuggling", the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced.
In the press release published by the SPA agency, it is specified that all the mentioned people are of Yemeni nationality.
The same source also announced the execution of a Pakistani man for drug trafficking, bringing the number of people executed for this reason to 2024 since the beginning of 71.
Saudi Arabia is an important market for amphetamine produced in Syria and Lebanon.
The Ministry of the Interior announced today the execution of two Saudis for murder.
Saudi Arabia is the country that executed the most prisoners in the world in 2023, after China and Iran, according to data from Amnesty International.
The authorities in Riyadh believe that the death penalty is necessary to "maintain public order" and is applied only if "the accused has exhausted all legal remedies".
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