Saudi Arabia: Rampant executions fuelled by justice system ’riddled with holes’ | Amnesty International
▻https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/08/saudi-arabia-rampant-executions-fuelled-by-justice-system-riddled-with-hole
– Death sentences imposed after unfair trials lacking basic safeguards
– At least 102 executed in first six months of 2015 compared to 90 in all of 2014
– Average of one person executed every two days, most by beheading [note pour Claudia Bandion-Ortner]
– Almost half of executions in recent years are for non-lethal crimes [+ 28% for drugs, including haschich]
– At least 2,208 people executed between January 1985 and June 2015
– Nearly half of those executed since 1985 were foreign nationals
– Juvenile offenders, people with mental disabilities among those executed