The recent @Reprieve report on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia lays out in stark detail many reasons why #EddieHowe #NUFC players #NUFCFans should be speaking out on the issue before the #CarabaoCupFinal
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The rate of executions in Saudi Arabia has almost doubled since King Salman and his son Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) came to power in 2015, a new report reveals. They have presided over more than 1,000 executions.
Reprieve and the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) studied execution data from 2010 onwards, verifying official announcements with open-source investigation and casework, plus interviews with lawyers, activists and family members where possible.
From 2010-2014 there was an average of 70.8 executions per year. From 2015-2022 there was an average of 129.5 executions per year – a rise of 82%.
From 2010-2014 there was an average of 70.8 executions per year. From 2015-2022 there was an average of 129.5 executions per year – a rise of 82%.
The six bloodiest years of executions in Saudi Arabia’s recent history have all occurred under the leadership of MBS and King Salman (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022). The report reveals that there were at least 147 executions in 2022.
The report focuses on five key areas, analysing how the death penalty is used against child defendants, foreign nationals and women, and for non-violent crimes and protest-related offences. It finds:
At least 15 child defendants have been executed since 2013, despite the Saudi regime’s repeated claims to have abolished the death penalty for childhood crimes. 11 of these executions were under MBS and King Salman, post-2015.
Saudi Arabia executes nearly three times as many foreign nationals for drug-related offences as Saudi nationals, despite foreigners comprising only 36% of Saudi Arabia’s population
Almost three-quarters of the women executed from 2010-2021 were foreign nationals, and of these at least 56% were domestic workers.
Executions for protest-related offences have dramatically increased under MBS. Of the 81 men killed in the March 2022 mass execution, more than half were charged with attending demonstrations and 71% were convicted of non-lethal offences.
This was the third mass execution under the current regime, following others in 2016 and 2019.
There were notably fewer executions in 2020 (27) and 2021 (67) than in preceding years or in 2022 (147). This is likely due to Covid-enforced shutdown of the judicial system, plus an unofficial moratorium on executions for drug offences.
These resumed in November 2022, with 20 executions in the space of 12 days. For a complete breakdown of executions in Saudi Arabia last year, see esohr.org/en/الإعدام-في-السعودية-2022-التكشّف-الدموي/
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