“Saudi Arabia applied the death penalty against a citizen during the month of Ramadan,” the Euro-Saudi Human Rights Organization (ESOHR) said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s top executioners, executed a man during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting that is traditionally a period of truce, a Saudi NGO said today.
The oil-rich Gulf monarchy executed a man for murder on March 28, five days after the start of Ramadan, in the western suburbs of Medina, home to the city of the same name, Islam’s second holiest site, according to the official SPA news agency. ).
“Saudi Arabia applied the death penalty against a citizen during the month of Ramadan,” the Euro-Saudi Human Rights Organization (ESOHR) said in a statement.
According to this Berlin-based NGO, no death row inmate had been executed during this holy month “in the last 14 years” at least, citing figures published by the interior ministry “since 2009”.
At least 17 death row inmates have been executed since the beginning of the year in the country, ESOHR added.
In total, more than 1,000 death sentences have been carried out since the abdication of King Salman (2015) and the appointment of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as de facto leader of the kingdom, according to a tally by UK-based Reprieve and ESOHR.
In March 2022, the country had executed 81 people in one day alone, sparking a storm of reaction abroad, with NGOs denouncing “mass executions”.
The authorities, who want to improve their image abroad, assure that they want to limit the severity of the sentences only in extreme cases.
Source :Skai
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