According to an AFP count, since the start of 2024, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) authorities have executed at least 101 foreigners.
21 foreigners from Pakistan, 20 from Yemen, 14 from Syria, 10 from Nigeria, 9 from Egypt, 8 from Jordan, and 7 from Ethiopia were among those put to death this year.
In addition, there were one each from Sri Lanka, Eritrea, and the Philippines, and three from Sudan, India, and Afghanistan. This is over three times the number of foreigners Saudi officials executed annually in 2023 and 2022. As of Sunday, November 17, 274 residents and foreign nationals had been executed in 2024.
The executions this year have already broken previous records, according to the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR).
This is the most foreigners that have been executed in a single year. The group's legal director, Taha al-Hajji, stated that Saudi Arabia has never executed 100 foreigners in a single year.
The reintroduction of executions for drug offences and charges related to terrorism are the main causes of the rise in executions in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia put 196 death row convicts to death in 2022, including 81 in a single execution.
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