MAKKAH: Berlin-based European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights has condemned on Monday (15th July, 2024) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for carrying out ‘one execution almost every two days.‘
With the beheading of two drug traffickers (a Pakistani and a Saudi) here on Thursday (18th of July, 2024) KSA has executed 106 people (including 7 Pakistanis) in the first 200 days of this year.
Of the 170 people beheaded last year (2023), thirty-three were killed for terrorism. Towards the end of 2022, KSA has recommenced executing the drug-traffickers after a break of three years.
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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career forty-five years ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.
