For the second consecutive year, Saudi Arabia has exceeded its yearly record for the number of executions. The UK-based advocacy organization Reprieve, which monitors executions in Saudi Arabia and has clients on death row, reports that at least 347 people have been executed this year, up from 345 in 2024.
According to the report, this was the “bloodiest year of executions in the kingdom since monitoring began.”Two Pakistani nationals convicted of drug-related offenses were the most recent inmates to be put to death.
A journalist and two young men who were minors at the time of their alleged protest-related offences are among those executed this year. There were five females. However, the majority, roughly two-thirds, were found guilty of non-lethal drug-related offences, which the UN claims are “incompatible with international norms and standards, according to Reprieve.
The “war on drugs in the kingdom appears to have resulted in the execution of almost half of them, who were foreign nationals. When the BBC asked the Saudi government for comment on the increase in executions, they did not reply.
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