Saudi Arabia can break the record of hanging in 2025, eight people are punished in a single day
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The Islamic country Saudi Arabia has seen an increase in the cases of hanging in recent years. Meanwhile, there is news that Saudi has hanged eight people in a single day. Most of the people who were hanged were found guilty of drug smuggling allegations.
On Saturday, the Saudi press agency said that four Somali and three Ethiopian citizens were hanged in the southern region Nazran for smuggling Hashish in the Kingdom. At the same time, a Saudi citizen was hanged for the murder of his mother.
In Saudi Arabia, there has been an increase in the number of hanging in cases related to drugs and in this sequence, the incident of hanging eight people in a day has come to light.
Human rights groups worried on hanging cases in Saudi?
The UK -based organization Reprieve and European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR) have expressed concern over the increasing number of hanging related to drugs cases.
Saudi Arabia gives the death penalty for smuggling etc., which has been criticized at the international level. In view of criticisms, there was an informal ban on hanging in drugs cases, but then in 2021, Saudi officials lifted this ban. Since the removal of the ban, cases of hanging the culprits of the case related to drugs have increased.
According to Reprieve, in 2024, Saudi Arabia hanged a record 345 people, out of which about half of which the crime was not fatal.
Saudi Arabia will break the record of hanging 2024
This year’s record of last year in Saudi Arabia is going to break, as according to news agency AFP, 230 people have been hanged so far this year, out of which 154 people have been hanged on drugs related to drugs.
Last year, there were 92 foreign nationals among those who were hanged in Saudi. According to Reprieve and Esohr, between 2010 and 2021, Saudi Arabia hanged almost three times more foreign nationals than Saudi citizens for drug -related crimes. Foreign nationals hold only 36 percent of the population of Saudi Arabia.
Jid Basayoni, head of Reprief’s Mena (Middle East and North Africa) Death Penalty, while talking to Middle East I said, ‘The world has failed to win the war against drugs and again we are seeing the same patterns that the authorities answer the dangers of drugs. People struggling with such allegations hardly get the right to basic facilities like a lawyer or translator during their trial.
