Saudi executions exceed 100 in 2016
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The file photo shows a public beheading in Saudi Arabia.
The number of executions in Saudi Arabia during the current year has exceeded 100 after the regime executed a man convicted of murder in Riyadh Province.
According to Press TV, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday that Saudi national Fahad Abdulhadi al-Dusari was executed after he was found guilty of shooting dead a fellow citizen, Mubarak bin Mohammed al-Dusari, following a dispute.
The statement, released by the official SPA news agency, did not elaborate on the method used for the execution, but most of the people sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with the sword.
The Friday execution brought to 101 the number of those executed by the Saudi regime this year.
The Arab kingdom executed a total of 158 people in 2015, a global high.
The alarming rate of executions in the kingdom has prompted Amnesty International to call for an “immediate” moratorium on the practice. Human Rights Watch has also called on the Saudi regime to abolish its “ghastly” beheadings.
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