The quantity dwarfed the 67 executions reported within the kingdom in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.
“Those folks, totaling 81, have been convicted of quite a lot of crimes together with murdering blameless males, ladies and kids,” the internal ministry stated in a remark.
“Crimes dedicated via those folks additionally come with pledging allegiance to overseas terrorist organizations, corresponding to ISIS (Islamic State), al Qaeda and the Houthis,” it added.
Some traveled to battle zones to enroll in “terrorist organizations,” the remark stated.
The ministry didn’t say how the executions have been performed.
The boys integrated 37 Saudi nationals who have been discovered to blame in one case for making an attempt to assassinate safety officials and concentrated on police stations and convoys, the ministry added.
The dominion achieved 63 folks in at some point in 1980, a 12 months after militants seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, in step with state media studies.
A complete of 47 folks, together with distinguished Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr, have been achieved in at some point in 2016.
Rights teams have accused Saudi Arabia of imposing restrictive rules on political and non secular expression, and criticized it for the use of the dying penalty, together with for defendants arrested after they have been minors.
Saudi Arabia denies accusations of human rights abuses and says it protects its nationwide safety in step with its rules.
SPA, Saudi Arabia’s state information company, stated the accused have been supplied with the appropriate to an legal professional and have been assured their complete rights beneath Saudi regulation all the way through the judicial procedure.
