Execution figure almost doubles from last year People convicted of non-lethal crimes among those executed Rights groups accuse kingdom of using torture Saudi Arabia denies abuse, cites national ...

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities have been carrying out an unprecedented surge in executions in 2025 without apparent due process, Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center said today. The ...

A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency in 2023 -- Saudi Arabia has strict anti-drug laws and resumed executions for drug crimes in 2022 — - The two Egyptian inmates ate a routine final ...

Facing an influx of amphetamines, the kingdom has put hundreds of people to death, many of them foreigners convicted of low-level smuggling. By Ismaeel Naar and Vivian Nereim Ismaeel Naar reported ...