Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Amnesty International Faults Saudi Arabia's Justice System!

According to Amnesty International, hundreds of people have been condemned to death after being convicted in unfair trials under what has been described as 'Saudi Arabia’s deeply flawed judicial system'.

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In a journal published on Tuesday, 25th August, Amnesty International revealed that "Saudi Arabia's faulty justice system facilitates judicial executions on a mass scale"

Below is AI's breakdown of Killings Carried Out Under The Directives Of Saudi's Justice System:
  • 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
  • Almost half of executions in recent years are for non-lethal crimes
  • 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



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