Saudi Arabia executing foreigners, drug offenders at record pace: Amnesty

[shockedcanadian]

They are probably going to pull a China on the world and only pretend they are.engaging in reforms when perhaps.they are.not.. One has to consider the circumstances behind some of these.cases even if one does support the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Killing so many foreign nationals isn't going to help the Saudis efforts to engage with the world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-executions-amnesty-report-1.7578614.

Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom's use of the death penalty in non-violent drug cases.

Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of reporting. In the first six months of this year alone, 180 people have been put to death, the group said, signalling that record likely will again be broken.

This year, about two-thirds of those executed were convicted on non-lethal drug charges, the activist group Reprieve said separately. Amnesty also has raised similar concerns about executions in drug cases.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

A drug charge is a drug charge is a drug charge. No was was executed. The deaths are all voluntary. Call it assisted suicide.

 

[Mack The Finger]

A drug charge is a drug charge is a drug charge. No was was executed. The deaths are all voluntary. Call it assisted suicide.

Great Post !

 

[Picaro]

Anybody stupid enough to go there in the first place with drugs doesn't deserve much sympathy. Visiting any Islamist shithole is just asking for a Darwin Award, period.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

The most Muslim nations will execute you for buying, selling and using drugs, however, in Afghanistan, they grow the opium poppies, process them and sell them to make enough money to feed their families.

 

[frigidweirdo]

They are probably going to pull a China on the world and only pretend they are.engaging in reforms when perhaps.they are.not.. One has to consider the circumstances behind some of these.cases even if one does support the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Killing so many foreign nationals isn't going to help the Saudis efforts to engage with the world. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-executions-amnesty-report-1.7578614.
Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom's use of the death penalty in non-violent drug cases.

Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of reporting. In the first six months of this year alone, 180 people have been put to death, the group said, signalling that record likely will again be broken.

This year, about two-thirds of those executed were convicted on non-lethal drug charges, the activist group Reprieve said separately. Amnesty also has raised similar concerns about executions in drug cases.

If you want to do drugs, don't go to Saudi Arabia then.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The most Muslim nations will execute you for buying, selling and using drugs, however, in Afghanistan, they grow the opium poppies, process them and sell them to make enough money to feed their families.

That's because they are enemies of humanity.

 

[martybegan]

They are probably going to pull a China on the world and only pretend they are.engaging in reforms when perhaps.they are.not.. One has to consider the circumstances behind some of these.cases even if one does support the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Killing so many foreign nationals isn't going to help the Saudis efforts to engage with the world.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-executions-amnesty-report-1.7578614.

Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom's use of the death penalty in non-violent drug cases.

Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of reporting. In the first six months of this year alone, 180 people have been put to death, the group said, signalling that record likely will again be broken.

This year, about two-thirds of those executed were convicted on non-lethal drug charges, the activist group Reprieve said separately. Amnesty also has raised similar concerns about executions in drug cases.

Their country, their laws.

It's not like people don't know that if you try to bring or sell drugs there, you will get your head separated from the remainder of your body.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Their country, their laws.

It's not like people don't know that if you try to bring or sell drugs there, you will get your head separated from the remainder of your body.

What if you were visiting and some agent inspecting your bags dropped a little bag of something to frame you?

Death can't be undone.

If you offered me $5M to live there I'd pay you money to keep yours. It's not just this law as I don't take poisons, it's the fact they are far behind. I've lived through enough human right abuses to know I wouldn't want to tempt worse scenarios.

 

[martybegan]

What if you were visiting and some agent inspecting your bags dropped a little bag of something to frame you?

Death can't be undone.

If you offered me $5M to live there I'd pay you money to keep yours. It's not just this law as I don't take poisons, it's the fact they are far behind. I've lived through enough human right abuses to know I wouldn't want to tempt worse scenarios.

Show me that has happened.

Their country, their criminal law.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

That's because they are enemies of humanity.

Islam itself is the enemy of humanity and western civilization.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Islam itself is the enemy of humanity and western civilization.

That's true too. Knowing that, what kind of fool would do drugs there?

 

[Zebra]

That's true too. Knowing that, what kind of fool would do drugs there?

good question!