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Saudi Arabia executĕs more than 100 foreigners in 2024

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Last updated: November 18, 2024 7:49 am
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Saudi Arabia has executĕd more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally.

The latest execut!on, on Saturday November 16, in the southwestern region of Najran, was of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs into the Gulf kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

That brought to 101 the number of foreigners executĕd so far in 2024, according to the tally which is compiled from state media reports.

This is almost triple the figures for 2023 and 2022, when Saudi authorities had put to death 34 foreigners each year, according to AFP tallies.

The Berlin-based European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) said this year’s execut!ons had already broken a record.

‘This is the largest number of executions of foreigners in one year. Saudi Arabia has never executĕd 100 foreigners in a year,’ said Taha al-Hajji, the group’s legal director.

The oil-rich kingdom executed the third-highest number of prisoners in the world after China and Iran in 2023, according to Amnesty International.

In September, AFP reported that Saudi Arabia had carried out its highest number of execut!ons in more than three decades, surpassing its previous highs of 196 in 2022 and 192 in 1995.

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Executions have continued at a rapid clip since then and totalled 274 for the year as of Sunday, according to AFP’s tally.

Foreigners executed this year have included 21 from Pakistan, 20 from Yemen, 14 from Syria, 10 from Nigeria, nine from Egypt, eight from Jordan, and seven from Ethiopia.

There were also three each from Sudan, India and Afghanistan, and one each from Sri Lanka, Eritrea and the Philippines.

Saudi Arabia in 2022 ended a three-year moratorium on the execution of drug offenders, and executions for drug-related crimes have boosted this year’s numbers.

There have been 92 such executions so far this year, 69 of them of foreigners, according to the AFP tally.

Diplomats and activists say that foreign defendants usually face a higher barrier to fair trials, including the right to access court documents.

Foreigners ‘are the most vulnerable group’, said Hajji of the ESOHR.

Not only are they often ‘victims of major drug de@lers’ but also ‘subjected to a series of violations from the moment of their arrest until their execution,’ he said.

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