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2022-04-09 10:44:45 UTC
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Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed
81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to
militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the
kingdom in its modern history.
The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass
execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque
in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom
and Islam's holiest site.
It wasn't clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions,
though they came as much of the world's attention remained focused on
Russia's war on Ukraine -- and as the U.S. hopes to lower record-high
gasoline prices as energy prices spike worldwide. British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson reportedly plans a trip to Saudi Arabia next
week over oil prices as well.
The number of death penalty cases being carried out in Saudi Arabia
had dropped during the coronavirus pandemic, though the kingdom
continued to behead convicts under King Salman and his assertive son,
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced Saturday's executions,
saying they included those "convicted of various crimes, including the
murdering of innocent men, women and children."
The kingdom also said some of those executed were members of al-Qaida,
the Islamic State group and also backers of Yemen's Houthi rebels. A
Saudi-led coalition has been battling the Iran-backed Houthis since
2015 in neighboring Yemen in an effort to restore the internationally
recognized government to power.
Those executed included 73 Saudis, seven Yemenis and one Syrian. The
report did not say where the executions took place.
"The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were
guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial
process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes
that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers
dead," the Saudi Press Agency said.
"The kingdom will continue to take a strict and unwavering stance
against terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the stability
of the entire world," the report added. It did not say how the
prisoners were executed, though death-row inmates typically are
beheaded in Saudi Arabia.
An announcement by Saudi state television described those executed as
having "followed the footsteps of Satan" in carrying out their crimes.
The executions drew immediate international criticism.
"The world should know by now that when Mohammed bin Salman promises
reform, bloodshed is bound to follow," said Soraya Bauwens, the deputy
director of Reprieve, a London-based advocacy group.
Ali Adubusi, the director of the European Saudi Organisation for Human
Rights, alleged that some of those executed had been tortured and
faced trials "carried out in secret."
"These executions are the opposite of justice," he said.
The kingdom's last mass execution came in January 2016, when the
kingdom executed 47 people, including a prominent opposition Shiite
cleric who had rallied demonstrations in the kingdom.
In 2019, the kingdom beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority
Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged
terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly nailed the severed body and
head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. Such
crucifixions after execution, while rare, do occur in the kingdom.
Activists, including Ali al-Ahmed of the U.S.-based Institute for Gulf
Affairs, and the group Democracy for the Arab World Now said they
believe that over three dozen of those executed Saturday also were
Shiites. The Saudi statement, however, did not identify the faiths of
those killed.
Shiites, who live primarily in the kingdom's oil-rich east, have long
complained of being treated as second-class citizens. Executions of
Shiites in the past have stirred regional unrest. Saudi Arabia
meanwhile remains engaged in diplomatic talks with its Shiite regional
rival Iran to try to ease yearslong tensions.
The 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque remains a crucial moment in the
history of the oil-rich kingdom.
A band of ultraconservative Saudi Sunni militants took the Grand
Mosque, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that Muslims pray toward five
times a day, demanding the Al Saud royal family abdicate. A two-week
siege that followed ended with an official death toll of 229 killed.
The kingdom's rulers soon further embraced Wahhabism, an
ultraconservative Islamic doctrine.
Since taking power, Crown Prince Mohammed under his father has
increasingly liberalized life in the kingdom, opening movie theaters,
allowing women to drive and defanging the country's once-feared
religious police.
However, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the crown prince also
ordered the slaying and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist
Jamal Khashoggi, while overseeing airstrikes in Yemen that killed
hundreds of civilians.
In excerpts of an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the crown
prince discussed the death penalty, saying a "high percentage" of
executions had been halted through the payment of so-called "blood
money" settlements to grieving families.
"Well about the death penalty, we got rid of all of it, except for one
category, and this one is written in the Quran, and we cannot do
anything about it, even if we wished to do something, because it is
clear teaching in the Quran," the prince said, according to a
transcript later published by the Saudi-owned satellite news channel
Al-Arabiya.
"If someone killed someone, another person, the family of that person
has the right, after going to the court, to apply capital punishment,
unless they forgive him. Or if someone threatens the life of many
people, that means he has to be punished by the death penalty."
He added: "Regardless if I like it or not, I don't have the power to
change it."
Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed
81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to
militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the
kingdom in its modern history.
The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass
execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque
in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom
and Islam's holiest site.
It wasn't clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions,
though they came as much of the world's attention remained focused on
Russia's war on Ukraine -- and as the U.S. hopes to lower record-high
gasoline prices as energy prices spike worldwide. British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson reportedly plans a trip to Saudi Arabia next
week over oil prices as well.
The number of death penalty cases being carried out in Saudi Arabia
had dropped during the coronavirus pandemic, though the kingdom
continued to behead convicts under King Salman and his assertive son,
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced Saturday's executions,
saying they included those "convicted of various crimes, including the
murdering of innocent men, women and children."
The kingdom also said some of those executed were members of al-Qaida,
the Islamic State group and also backers of Yemen's Houthi rebels. A
Saudi-led coalition has been battling the Iran-backed Houthis since
2015 in neighboring Yemen in an effort to restore the internationally
recognized government to power.
Those executed included 73 Saudis, seven Yemenis and one Syrian. The
report did not say where the executions took place.
"The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were
guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial
process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes
that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers
dead," the Saudi Press Agency said.
"The kingdom will continue to take a strict and unwavering stance
against terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the stability
of the entire world," the report added. It did not say how the
prisoners were executed, though death-row inmates typically are
beheaded in Saudi Arabia.
An announcement by Saudi state television described those executed as
having "followed the footsteps of Satan" in carrying out their crimes.
The executions drew immediate international criticism.
"The world should know by now that when Mohammed bin Salman promises
reform, bloodshed is bound to follow," said Soraya Bauwens, the deputy
director of Reprieve, a London-based advocacy group.
Ali Adubusi, the director of the European Saudi Organisation for Human
Rights, alleged that some of those executed had been tortured and
faced trials "carried out in secret."
"These executions are the opposite of justice," he said.
The kingdom's last mass execution came in January 2016, when the
kingdom executed 47 people, including a prominent opposition Shiite
cleric who had rallied demonstrations in the kingdom.
In 2019, the kingdom beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority
Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged
terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly nailed the severed body and
head of a convicted extremist to a pole as a warning to others. Such
crucifixions after execution, while rare, do occur in the kingdom.
Activists, including Ali al-Ahmed of the U.S.-based Institute for Gulf
Affairs, and the group Democracy for the Arab World Now said they
believe that over three dozen of those executed Saturday also were
Shiites. The Saudi statement, however, did not identify the faiths of
those killed.
Shiites, who live primarily in the kingdom's oil-rich east, have long
complained of being treated as second-class citizens. Executions of
Shiites in the past have stirred regional unrest. Saudi Arabia
meanwhile remains engaged in diplomatic talks with its Shiite regional
rival Iran to try to ease yearslong tensions.
The 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque remains a crucial moment in the
history of the oil-rich kingdom.
A band of ultraconservative Saudi Sunni militants took the Grand
Mosque, home to the cube-shaped Kaaba that Muslims pray toward five
times a day, demanding the Al Saud royal family abdicate. A two-week
siege that followed ended with an official death toll of 229 killed.
The kingdom's rulers soon further embraced Wahhabism, an
ultraconservative Islamic doctrine.
Since taking power, Crown Prince Mohammed under his father has
increasingly liberalized life in the kingdom, opening movie theaters,
allowing women to drive and defanging the country's once-feared
religious police.
However, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the crown prince also
ordered the slaying and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist
Jamal Khashoggi, while overseeing airstrikes in Yemen that killed
hundreds of civilians.
In excerpts of an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the crown
prince discussed the death penalty, saying a "high percentage" of
executions had been halted through the payment of so-called "blood
money" settlements to grieving families.
"Well about the death penalty, we got rid of all of it, except for one
category, and this one is written in the Quran, and we cannot do
anything about it, even if we wished to do something, because it is
clear teaching in the Quran," the prince said, according to a
transcript later published by the Saudi-owned satellite news channel
Al-Arabiya.
"If someone killed someone, another person, the family of that person
has the right, after going to the court, to apply capital punishment,
unless they forgive him. Or if someone threatens the life of many
people, that means he has to be punished by the death penalty."
He added: "Regardless if I like it or not, I don't have the power to
change it."