RIYADH – Saudi authorities have executed 81 people in the past 24 hours inthe ‘largest’ known mass execution carried out in the kingdom’s history.
The mass execution occurred as the group of prisoners had been tried by 13judges and gone through a three-stage judicial process, a report of the *SaudiPress Agency* said.
Dozens of Saudi nationals, 7 Yemenis, and one Syrian citizen are amongexecuted men who were convicted of terror-related activities.
Some of the men belonged to the Islamic State group (IS), Al-Qaeda, and theHouthi rebels in Yemen while other individuals were convicted of plottingattacks, kidnapping, torture, sexual assault, and smuggling weapons intothe Kingdom.
The second-largest country in the Arab world has one of the highestexecution rates in the world. Earlier, 67 executions were reported in thekingdom in 2021 and 27 in 2020.
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Kingdom’s human rights records have been under increasing scrutiny fromWestern groups since the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Saudi Arabia, arid, sparsely populated kingdom of the Middle East, trashedaccusations of human rights abuses and argued that it protects its nationalsecurity according to its laws.
