The number of executions in Saudi Arabia in 2024 exceeds 300, according to a count by Agence France-Presse (AFP) updated on Tuesday, December 3, following announcements by the Saudi Interior Ministry. Four people convicted of common crimes were executed, the Ministry announced in press releases, bringing the number of executions to 303 since the beginning of the year.
In 2023, Saudi Arabia executed 170 people, according to an AFP count based on official data. According to the NGO Amnesty International, which counts executions since 1990 in this rich Gulf monarchy that follows a rigorous application of Islamic law, the kingdom is the country that has executed the most prisoners in the world in 2023, after China and Iran. Previously, the record number of executions in a single year in the country was 196 in 2022 and 192 in 1995, according to Amnesty.
Taha Al-Hajji, legal director of the Berlin-based European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, called the 2024 executions a“incomprehensible and inexplicable”condemning the ” speed “ to which they were made.
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