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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-executions.html April 23, 2019 Saudi Arabia executed 37 people on Tuesday after they had been sentenced to death for terrorism-related crimes]. The executions were announced in a statement on the state-run news agency, which said the men had been put to death for “their adoption of extremist, terrorist ideology and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disturb security, spread chaos and cause sectarian discord.” Some of the men had been involved in bomb attacks on security headquarters that had killed officers, the agency said. - The statement also accused them of “cooperating with hostile parties in a way that damaged the high interests of the homeland.” - It listed the 37 men by name but provided little information about what crimes they had committed or when. But many of them were members of the kingdom’s Shiite Muslim minority, which is concentrated in the east of the country and has often had a contentious, sometimes violent relationship with the Saudi authorities. - Saudi Arabia has also struggled in recent years with domestic supporters of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, who have carried out a number of deadly attacks in the kingdom. | |||
On Monday, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a security building in the town of Zulfi, northwest of Riyadh, the capital. All four militants were killed, and three security officers were wounded in the attack, the Saudi authorities said. - Most executions in Saudi Arabia are done by beheading in a public square. The executions on Tuesday were carried out in cities around the kingdom, the statement said, and one of the condemned was also subjected to crucifixion, which in Saudi Arabia means leaving the body on display after the person has been killed. - Human rights organizations often criticize the Saudi judicial system for lacking transparency and convicting suspects based on secret evidence or confessions given under duress. | |||
The mass execution is the largest in Saudi Arabia since January 2016, when 47 men were executed in a single day, including an outspoken Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Sheikh Nimr’s execution caused protests in Iran, during which rioters stormed Saudi diplomatic buildings, leading to a breakdown in relations between the two countries. None of the men executed on Tuesday were as prominent as Sheikh Nimr, and it was not immediately clear whether there would be a reaction to the executions, either inside Saudi Arabia or abroad. The executions on Tuesday brought the number of such punishments in Saudi Arabia this year to 103, according to a count by Human Rights Watch. The kingdom executed 148 people in 2018. | |||
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-99-death-penalty-execution-capital-punishment-middle-east-a7148031.html The Independent 2016] SArabia is also one of the few countries in the world to carry out public rather than private executions. The others are Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, North Korea and Somalia. All Middle Eastern and North African countries use the state-sanctioned death penalty except for Oman and Israel. - Punishment by decapitation or other means is considered in some Arab countries to be an accurate interpretation of shari'ah law, which includes the Islamic law concept of qisas, or eye-for-an-eye retribution for murder. But critics point out that nonviolent drug offences make up a significant part of those sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. - Nor has the punishment always been deployed, with Pakistan, Egypt and Jordan using it more frequently now than in previous years.- After an eight-year halt in executions, Jordan resumed its use of the death penalty in December 2014 when authorities executed 11 men on murder charges, with a further execution taking place in February 2015. - A terrorist attack on school children in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, meanwhile, also prompted a resurgence of the death penalty in the country. Mass executions and death sentences in Egypt have even targeted pro-democracy protesters.-Iran remains the most prolific executor of its people, outstripping China's larger record in terms of numbers by proportion of the Iranian population executed.-But four countries banned the use of the death sentence completely in 2015: Fiji, Madagascar, Republic of Congo and Suriname, with Mongolia expected to follow suit in September 2016.- Ms Hashash said Saudia Arabia belonged to "an increasingly isolated minority, as for the first time ever in 2015 a majority of the world's countries fully abolished the death penalty."- Crimes punishable by beheading, stoning or firing squad in Saudi Arabia include: blasphemy, drug offences, adultery, murder, armed robbery, rape and false prophecy.- Several states in the US also sanction the death penalty. Last year, 28 death row prisoners were executed, all by lethal injection. | *[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-99-death-penalty-execution-capital-punishment-middle-east-a7148031.html The Independent 2016] SArabia is also one of the few countries in the world to carry out public rather than private executions. The others are Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, North Korea and Somalia. All Middle Eastern and North African countries use the state-sanctioned death penalty except for Oman and Israel. - Punishment by decapitation or other means is considered in some Arab countries to be an accurate interpretation of shari'ah law, which includes the Islamic law concept of qisas, or eye-for-an-eye retribution for murder. But critics point out that nonviolent drug offences make up a significant part of those sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. - Nor has the punishment always been deployed, with Pakistan, Egypt and Jordan using it more frequently now than in previous years.- After an eight-year halt in executions, Jordan resumed its use of the death penalty in December 2014 when authorities executed 11 men on murder charges, with a further execution taking place in February 2015. - A terrorist attack on school children in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, meanwhile, also prompted a resurgence of the death penalty in the country. Mass executions and death sentences in Egypt have even targeted pro-democracy protesters.-Iran remains the most prolific executor of its people, outstripping China's larger record in terms of numbers by proportion of the Iranian population executed.-But four countries banned the use of the death sentence completely in 2015: Fiji, Madagascar, Republic of Congo and Suriname, with Mongolia expected to follow suit in September 2016.- Ms Hashash said Saudia Arabia belonged to "an increasingly isolated minority, as for the first time ever in 2015 a majority of the world's countries fully abolished the death penalty."- Crimes punishable by beheading, stoning or firing squad in Saudi Arabia include: blasphemy, drug offences, adultery, murder, armed robbery, rape and false prophecy.- Several states in the US also sanction the death penalty. Last year, 28 death row prisoners were executed, all by lethal injection. | ||
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- April 23, 2019 Saudi Arabia executed 37 people on Tuesday after they had been sentenced to death for terrorism-related crimes. The executions were announced in a statement on the state-run news agency, which said the men had been put to death for “their adoption of extremist, terrorist ideology and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disturb security, spread chaos and cause sectarian discord.” Some of the men had been involved in bomb attacks on security headquarters that had killed officers, the agency said. - The statement also accused them of “cooperating with hostile parties in a way that damaged the high interests of the homeland.” - It listed the 37 men by name but provided little information about what crimes they had committed or when. But many of them were members of the kingdom’s Shiite Muslim minority, which is concentrated in the east of the country and has often had a contentious, sometimes violent relationship with the Saudi authorities. - Saudi Arabia has also struggled in recent years with domestic supporters of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, who have carried out a number of deadly attacks in the kingdom.
On Monday, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a security building in the town of Zulfi, northwest of Riyadh, the capital. All four militants were killed, and three security officers were wounded in the attack, the Saudi authorities said. - Most executions in Saudi Arabia are done by beheading in a public square. The executions on Tuesday were carried out in cities around the kingdom, the statement said, and one of the condemned was also subjected to crucifixion, which in Saudi Arabia means leaving the body on display after the person has been killed. - Human rights organizations often criticize the Saudi judicial system for lacking transparency and convicting suspects based on secret evidence or confessions given under duress.
The mass execution is the largest in Saudi Arabia since January 2016, when 47 men were executed in a single day, including an outspoken Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. Sheikh Nimr’s execution caused protests in Iran, during which rioters stormed Saudi diplomatic buildings, leading to a breakdown in relations between the two countries. None of the men executed on Tuesday were as prominent as Sheikh Nimr, and it was not immediately clear whether there would be a reaction to the executions, either inside Saudi Arabia or abroad. The executions on Tuesday brought the number of such punishments in Saudi Arabia this year to 103, according to a count by Human Rights Watch. The kingdom executed 148 people in 2018.
- The Independent 2016 SArabia is also one of the few countries in the world to carry out public rather than private executions. The others are Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, North Korea and Somalia. All Middle Eastern and North African countries use the state-sanctioned death penalty except for Oman and Israel. - Punishment by decapitation or other means is considered in some Arab countries to be an accurate interpretation of shari'ah law, which includes the Islamic law concept of qisas, or eye-for-an-eye retribution for murder. But critics point out that nonviolent drug offences make up a significant part of those sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. - Nor has the punishment always been deployed, with Pakistan, Egypt and Jordan using it more frequently now than in previous years.- After an eight-year halt in executions, Jordan resumed its use of the death penalty in December 2014 when authorities executed 11 men on murder charges, with a further execution taking place in February 2015. - A terrorist attack on school children in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, meanwhile, also prompted a resurgence of the death penalty in the country. Mass executions and death sentences in Egypt have even targeted pro-democracy protesters.-Iran remains the most prolific executor of its people, outstripping China's larger record in terms of numbers by proportion of the Iranian population executed.-But four countries banned the use of the death sentence completely in 2015: Fiji, Madagascar, Republic of Congo and Suriname, with Mongolia expected to follow suit in September 2016.- Ms Hashash said Saudia Arabia belonged to "an increasingly isolated minority, as for the first time ever in 2015 a majority of the world's countries fully abolished the death penalty."- Crimes punishable by beheading, stoning or firing squad in Saudi Arabia include: blasphemy, drug offences, adultery, murder, armed robbery, rape and false prophecy.- Several states in the US also sanction the death penalty. Last year, 28 death row prisoners were executed, all by lethal injection.
- Beheads Man for Smuggling Hash 2015/ around 50% of some 80 executions for drugs
- August 5, 2014: Man beheaded in Saudi Arabia for torturing toddler son to death. A Saudi man was beheaded Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, AFP reported. Maqbul bin Madi al-Sharari hit his son Mohammed “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest of his body,” the Interior Ministry said. He also punched the toddler in the face and “burned him in different parts of his body, torturing him several times,” according to SPA state news agency.
Another Saudi man, Mohammed bin Bakr al-Alawi, was beheaded after being convicted of sorcery, a separate statement from the ministry said.
- Alcohol is so illegal that you will not even find a version of your favorite Listerine mouth wash that contains it. You cannot buy alcohol in any form openly in KSA; although that does not mean that you can’t get it!
Weblinks und Literatur
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have executed four members of the same extended family for drugs possession. The two sets of brothers were killed on Monday in the south-eastern city of Najran after being convicted of receiving large quantities of hashish. The case against them was reportedly based on confessions extracted under torture, Amnesty International said. There had been a "disturbing" surge in the use of the death penalty in the kingdom, the human rights group added. There have been 17 executions in the past two weeks, compared with 17 in the previous six months. In 2013, the Saudi authorities executed at least 79 people, three of whom were under 18 at the time of the crimes for which they were condemned. - The four executed men - Hadi al-Mutlaq, Awad al-Mutlaq, Mufrih al-Yami and Ali al-Yami - were arrested and detained by the interior ministry's General Directorate of Investigations on several occasions after their alleged offence in 2007, Amnesty said. - They were reportedly tortured during interrogation, including with beatings and sleep deprivation, in order to extract false confessions. - Amnesty said it had been contacted by their family on Thursday amid fears that their executions were imminent.-It sought further information on the case, but within hours was informed that the family had been warned by interior ministry officials to stop contacting the group.-"This apparent intimidation and surveillance of victims of human rights violations and activists adds another sinister layer to Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty," said Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa programme deputy director Said Boumedouha.- "It is clear evidence that the authorities are willing to go to extreme lengths to prevent reports of gross human rights violations in the country from reaching the outside world."
- Crew, Bob (2003) The Beheading and Other Stories. London: Metro.
- Shia Cleric Hanging 2015 Skeikh al-Nimr became a symbol of the 2011 insurrection when the Arab Spring came to Saudi Arabia. He led Shia Muslim street protests throughout the country, demanding constitutional changes, liberties and an end to anti-Shia discrimination in the kingdom. Sheikh al-Nimr was arrested on July 8, 2012 in disputed circumstances, after police tracked him down in the eastern province of Qatif and shot him in the leg during a shootout.
- Todesstrafe in Saudi-Arabien für Hexerei und Zauberei (Russian Television, 23.04.2012 A Sri Lankan woman is currently facing decapitation by sword on a witchcraft charge in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with Wahhabism, a strict form of Sunni Islam. The UN reports executions tripled in the kingdom in 2011. A Saudi man complained that in a shopping mall his 13-year-old daughter “suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, which happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman,” reports the daily Okaz. -After the local man denounced the Sri Lankan for casting a spell on his daughter, police in the port city of Jeddah found it sufficient cause to arrest the woman.- Witchcraft and sorcery imply only one measure in Saudi Arabia – beheading. And it works this way in practice: last year in the kingdom at least two people – a woman in her 60s and a Sudanese man – were beheaded on witchcraft charges.- In the absolute monarchy that Saudi Arabia is, a criminal code does not exist per se. Court sentences are based on Islamic Sharia law on the interpretation of judges.
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