August 21, 2024 Meet the Middle East

'Cruel torture': Drug convicts await execution in Saudi

The two Egyptian inmates ate a routine final dinner in a prison in northern Saudi Arabia, not knowing they would be put to death for drug crimes the next morning. Their abrupt killing this month extended a recent spree of drug-related executions in Saudi Arabia, after officials ended a moratorium on the death penalty for such crimes less than two years ago.
Source: Al Monitor
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