On May 6, Saudi Arabia beheaded five foreigners and hung their corpses from helicopter to set an example. The executed men were identified as Khaled Fetini and Ibrahim Nasserm from Yemen, Hassan Omar from Chad, Salem Idriss from Eritrea and Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen from Sudan. They were guilty of murdering an Indian guard and stealing his money; the punishment was meant to deter others from committing such crimes.
The five migrants were executed just a month after Amnesty International condemned the “macabre spike” in state-sanctioned killings. Amnesty’s 2014 global report on the death penalty ranked Saudi Arabia among the top five executioners in the world. Saudi Arabia executed 88 in 2014, and after the recent beheading, the figure has touched 80 in 2015.
Amnesty’s UK head of policy and government affairs, Allan Hogarth accused the Saudi government of indulging in a “judicial killing spree”, describing the number of executions being carried out as “frightening”. “There were some tentative hopes of human rights reform when King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud came to the throne earlier this year, but these have now been completely crushed,” he said.
Amnesty’s director of Middle East and North Africa programs, Philip Luther added, “The first months of his reign have been marked by an unprecedented wave of executions in a clear signal that the use of the death penalty is thriving in the Kingdom. Any hopes that the arrival of King Salman might herald an improvement in human rights in Saudi Arabia have been crushed”.
Amnesty’s Saudi Arabia researcher Sevag Kechichian told AFP that while one can hardly affirm what has been driving these staggering numbers, the current rate “has been truly unprecedented”.
Adam Coogle, a Middle East analyst for Human Rights Watch, told The Independent, “Amnesty is absolutely correct in describing the spike as ‘macabre’. From January to the end of July 2014 there were 15 executions, but they finished 2014 with 88, which shows clearly that the spike began last year and has continued”.
Saudi Arabia plans on beheading human rights advocate Sheikh Nimr soon. Tweet about it. Maybe we can save his life. pic.twitter.com/E4gnUhXZPh
— Rana Harbi (@RanaHarbi) May 7, 2015
Why is @hrw silent about the planned beheading and execution of #nimr by the oppressive #SaudiArabia regime? — peaceintruth (@peaceinthetruth) May 8, 2015
#Saudi authorities sentenced #SheikhAlNimr to death in the form of beheading. He should be saved. https://t.co/lIJaBzgZB6 #FreeNimr
— Yusur AlBahrani يُسر (@YusurAlBahrani) May 8, 2015
Beheaded for theft? Spike in Saudi Arabia executions by beheading triggers outcry from #humanrights campaigners http://t.co/3ZS5jpgUh6 — Jon Hutson (@jonhutson) May 8, 2015
#SaudiArabia human rights record is atrocious. Beheading ideology been exported for years. World is feeding a monster with weapon supply.
— Jamila Hanan (@JamilaHanan) May 1, 2015
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s version of Islamic sharia law.
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All these people do over there is cut people’s heads off, trying to change their minds. This is the dumbest strategy ever conceived, and they are nothing but animals.
We execute more than our share of people in this country, and sometimes in more barbaric ways. We put more of our citizens in prison than any other country in the world. The Saudi Royal Family is in charge because the United States put them in power ( we were more concerned with accessing their oil than the freedoms and treatment of the Saudi Citizens ). Most of the world’s terrorists come from SA, and receive their financing from them, and yet we are harsher to the governments of Venezuela and Cuba than to SA. The US could send a clear message to SA by pulling all Petro Chemical business from the country. Blood and suffering caused by some in SA has been established, supported and sanctioned by the USA. We are largely responsible for much of the radicalism that they exhibit. Until we change our foreign policy, and our servitude to the oil and defense industry things will only get worse. A Saudi hand may be swinging the sword, but we put their leaders in power, have propped them up for decades and made them among the richest families on the planet. Uncle Sam and his cousins in the Royal family. There’s plenty of blood on our hands. Let’s start by outlawing capital punishment here, addressing the obvious and obscene bias in our judicial system and telling our corporations that they don’t rule our country or the world. Till then, we have no right to judge anyone.
Fortunately truth has the tendency to spill out! Thank you.
Nail on the head
Preach!
Fuck off Saudi , most fucked up uneducated bastard in the world. We will destroy you all.
You’re a fucking retard mate, ohhh they killed people for horrible crimes, let’s kill them all because logic Nahhh youre a waste of human intelligence go seclude yourself in a desert where you can never reproduce fucktard
Really uneducated ok. Look at your grammar. That’s why they aren’t paying money for prisons right because your tax dollars pay that in the US.
You’re a dumb cunt. You call people uneducated and you can’t even write an English sentence properly.. Fuck off please.
More proof that these people need to be removed from the planet.
Now, you know what blindly believing in a religion does.
Oh ofcourse.. Seriously, are you 10?
I hear you and these godless sub-humans will continue until a World Tribunal holds them accountable. BTW never mind these boring crazy ass Brits and their nationwide obsession with the word usage of CUNT. Strange lot they are, maybe their need for dental work has affected their miniscule cerebrum.
brutal animals of middle earth……goddish filthy people
This is just a suggestion, stay out of countries that will cut off your head, don’t go there to be their slaves to begin with.
Saudi as well as all these extremist muslims are pigs. Fucking pigs… So strange for a nation that doesn’t eat it…
They’ve been complaining about being left aside and victims of prejudice for centuries, yet they are the ones who want to impose their vision to the world and consider the rest of the planet don’t deserve to have their own opinion.
I can’t wait that moment when the earth will run out of oil. When they’ll have nothing left to threaten the world they’ll have no other choice than rise against the others.
“Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb”…
Yes they will.
Was this execution conducted out of the country? No. Then how the actual fucking cunt do they want to “impose their vision to the world and consider the rest of the planet don’t deserve to have their own opinion”? Huh? Stop being a dumb fag, I do not agree with the execution but you’re being a dumb bitch.
who fucking cares about saudi beheading people they have been doing it for centuries and good for them same thing here as in singapore if you dont want to be killed dont break their laws…..someone should do that here to these morons walking on my mother fucking beautiful american flag
Its done in the UK, so I hear, very quietly and for good reason.