{"id":14615,"date":"2024-01-02T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/?p=14615"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:02:01","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-%d9%a1%d9%a7%d9%a2-%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%b5%d8%a7-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%a2%d9%a0%d9%a2%d9%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%b9%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-%d9%a1%d9%a7%d9%a2-%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%b5%d8%a7-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%a2%d9%a0%d9%a2%d9%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"According to official data; Saudi Arabia killed 172 people in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-800x266.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-18x6.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-01-02T15:38:11+01:00\">2 January\u060c 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia carried out at least 172 executions in 2023, despite renewed promises from the Kingdom\u2019s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to limit the scope of capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Crown Prince and his father, King Salman, assumed power in 2015, Saudi Arabia has executed at least 1,257 people, at an average of 140 people per year. The seven bloodiest years in the Kingdom\u2019s modern history have occurred under their leadership and the rate of executions has almost doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reprieve Director Maya Foa said: \u201cIt is terrifying to think that this is business as usual in Mohammed bin Salman\u2019s Saudi Arabia. Behind the mega-investments in sport and the facade of reform, the Kingdom remains one of the world\u2019s top executioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owning the wrong books, posting a critical tweet, speaking to a journalist or disagreeing with the Crown Prince can earn you a death sentence. And while world leaders stare at their shoes and agree to believe the regime\u2019s lies, the killing continues relentlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) legal director Taha al-Hajji said: \u201cThe Crown Prince has blamed \u2018bad laws\u2019 and rogue judges for Saudi Arabia\u2019s continued execution crisis, but nothing gets done in the Kingdom without his approval. His endless empty promises of reform are contradicted by the facts: it has been yet another year of bloodshed in Saudi Arabia. Protesters and child defendants remain at imminent risk of execution with a stroke of the ruler\u2019s pen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The true number of executions cannot be ascertained with confidence. ESOHR monitors multiple public sources of execution data. In 2022, the authorities announced 147 executions, but the Saudi Human Rights Commission later confirmed to Amnesty International that 196 executions had been carried out \u2013 a modern record. For instance, in January 2023, ESOHR was made aware of the executions of two Yemeni nationals the previous month that were not reported in official accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also no way of knowing how many hundreds or even thousands of people are on death row as the Kingdom\u2019s capital justice system is almost entirely opaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One notable development in 2023 is a significant increase in the number of women executed: six, including three Saudi nationals, one Yemeni, one Ghanaian and one Bangladeshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another is the execution of two Saudi men convicted in military courts \u2013 these rulings are rarely issued in Saudi Arabia and it is not possible to trace them or know the details of the trials there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Nations legal experts had written to the Saudi authorities about three of the men killed, in a bid to prevent their execution: Bahraini nationals Sadiq Thamer and Jaafar Sultan, and Reprieve client Hussein abo al-Kheir, a Jordanian taxi driver tortured into making a false confession to drug charges. The latter\u2019s case was also raised in the UK and European parliaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0646\u0641\u0630\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0645\u0644\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0629 \u0645\u0627 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0642\u0644 \u0639\u0646 172 \u0625\u0639\u062f\u0627\u0645\u0627\u064b \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0627\u0645 2023\u060c \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u063a\u0645 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0639\u0648\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062c\u062f\u062f\u0629 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0627\u0643\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0639\u0644\u064a \u0644\u0644\u0628\u0644\u0627\u062f\u060c \u0648\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0647\u062f \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0628\u0646 \u0633\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0646\u060c \u0644\u0644\u062d\u062f \u0645\u0646 \u0646\u0637\u0627\u0642 \u0639\u0642\u0648\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u062f\u0627\u0645. \u0645\u0646\u0630 \u062a\u0648\u0644\u064a \u0648\u0644\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0647\u062f \u0648\u0648\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u0643 \u0633\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0627\u0645 2015\u060c \u0623\u0639\u062f\u0645\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0639\u0648\u062f\u064a\u0629 \u0645\u0627 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0642\u0644 \u0639\u0646 1257 \u0634\u062e\u0635\u0627\u060c \u0628\u0645\u0639\u062f\u0644 140 \u0634\u062e\u0635\u0627 \u0633\u0646\u0648\u064a\u0627.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14689,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions\/14689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esohr.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}