Saudi Arabia carries out its 100th execution of the year as four more prisoners are put to death

Saudi Arabia has carried out its a centesimal execution for the 12 months after 4 folks had been put to loss of life on Thursday, in response to an AFP tally based mostly on official statements.

The newest executions reported by the official Saudi Press Company come amid contemporary condemnation of the dominion’s human rights document after 81 folks had been put to loss of life in a single day final week.

On Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s execution of 81 folks in someday – on varied fees, together with terrorism-related offences – exceeded the entire of 69 killed in the entire of 2021.

Human Rights Watch stated it was ‘extremely unlikely’ that the 81 males obtained honest trials, calling it a ‘brutal present of its autocratic rule’.

Greater than half of them, 41, belonged to the dominion’s Shiite Muslim minority ‘who’ve lengthy suffered systemic discrimination and violence by the federal government’, the New York-based rights group stated.

Saudi Arabia stated the lads, who included seven Yemenis and one Syrian, belonged both to the Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Huthi rebels or ‘different terrorist organisations’.

These are the faces of 31 out of 81 males executed by Saudi Arabia in a single day on the weekend.

Half of these put to loss of life had been from the nation’s Shia minority area which has seen anti-government demonstrations because the Arab Spring swept by way of the area in 2011.

Saturday’s mass execution was stated by the Riyadh authorities to contain international terrorists and folks convicted of ‘murdering harmless males, girls and kids’.

Others killed included prisoners accused of holding ‘deviant beliefs’.

These 31 males had been put to loss of life as the results of a bloody clampdown on Shi’ite Muslims from the japanese Qatif area which has traditionally been a flashpoint between locals and the Sunni-dominated authorities.

Asaad Makki Al Shub’bar Ali, 37, was arrested whereas driving his spouse to the varsity the place she labored and accused of collaborating in demonstrations and chanting political slogans in addition to being in possession of an image of a human rights campaigner and becoming a member of a terrorist organisation.

Based on the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), his torture included ‘beatings with fingers, legs, whips, wire and different devices all through his physique and face with a concentrate on the decrease again because the investigator knew that he had a again vertebrae harm, in addition to beatings in delicate areas of his physique’.

One other executed was Mohammed al-Shakhouri, 27, who was tortured and stored in solitary confinement. Relations had no contact with him for six months, in response to ESOHR.