17 people were executed over a period of 3 days in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, most of them for drug crimes

The government media said that the Saudi authorities put two people to death on Monday to reach 17 executions in three days. Executions this year.

The official Saudi Press Agency said, after two Saudis were executed in favor of “terrorist crimes”, after 15 people were executed, most of them foreigners on charges of drug crimes on Saturday and Sunday.

It is the fastest pace of death penalty since March 2022, Matthew 81 people were executed In one day for terrorist crimes, which sparked widespread condemnation. In 2016, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 47 people What was the largest mass execution in the country since 1980.

Thirteen of those who were placed to death on Saturday and Sunday were convicted of smuggling hashish, and another to smuggle cocaine.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the most executioners in the world, has carried out 239 executions so far this year. The conservative country is in its path for its superiority last year 338 – and it is the highest since the public records documented for the first time in the early 1990s.

The executions of this year include 161 for drug crimes and 136 foreigners, according to the outcome of Agence France Presse for official data.

“A significant increase in executions of hashish drug crimes, as foreign citizens make up most of these executions.”

“This is particularly concerned, given the global trend towards the criminalization of the possession and use of cannabis,” she told AFP.

Analysts connect to the “drug war” in the Kingdom that was launched in 2023, when many of those arrested for the first time were arrested after legal procedures.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has resumed executions of drug crimes at the end of 2022, after suspending this practice for about three years. She says that she is carrying out death sentences only after the defendants have exhausted all the appeal methods, and that the executions are aimed at ensuring security and deterring drugs.

The country carried out 46 people in June alone, most of them are foreign citizens, including 37 for drug -related crimes, whose average is more than a drug -related execution every day, According to Amnesty International A report released last month. Last year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia held a record 345 executions, the group said.

Kristen Becker, Deputy Regional Director of Amnesty International in the Middle East and North Africa, said in A. statement.

Activists say that the continuous civilization of the death penalty undermines a more welcoming society image, which is essential in the vision of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman 2030 Reform Agency.