Reports reaching us today being Saturday clearly indicates that Saudi Arabia has executed 81 people in one day on a variety of terrorism-related offences, exceeding the total number of executions in the kingdom throughout last year, 2021.
All had been “found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes”, the official Saudi Press Agency reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Islamic State group, or to Al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Huthi rebel forces or “other terrorist organisations”.
They had been scheming attacks on vital economic sites, or had targeted or had killed members of the security forces, or had weapons brought into the country illegally, the SPA added.
Of these 81 persons, 73 are Saudi citizens, seven Yemeni and one a Syrian national.
SPA said all those executed were tried in Saudi courts, with trials overseen by not less than 13 judges in three separate stages each for every one of the deceased criminals.
The wealthy Gulf country has one of the world’s highest execution/mortality rates.
Saturday’s announcement marks the kingdom’s highest number of recorded executions in one day, and more than the total of 69 executions in all of 2021.
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