3 Sri Lankans, 1 Egyptian beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has decapitated four more foreign nationals amid global concerns over the rising number of the executions in the kingdom.
According to the Saudi Interior Ministry on Monday, three Sri Lankan nationals were executed in the western Saudi port city of Jeddah for their role in the murder of a Saudi man.
An Egyptian was also beheaded in the Eastern Province for stabbing and strangling a citizen to death.
According to statistics, 120 people have been executed in the kingdom since the beginning of 2015, showing a drastic increase in compassion with the 87 executions carried out throughout the previous year.
Back in May, the United Nations warned of the “fast pace” of executions in the Arab country, saying it is “very disturbing.”
“If it continues at this pace, we will have double the number of executions, or more than double the number of executions, that we had last year,” Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said.
In the same month, the Saudi regime had issued an online vacancy announcement for hiring eight executioners.
Riyadh has been under fire for having one of the world’s highest execution rates. London-based Amnesty International attributes 79 executions to the kingdom in 2013 and 2012, 82 in 2011 and 2010, and at least 69 executions in 2009.
Under the Saudi law, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking, rape and murder carry the death penalty.
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