Last year this Arab kingdom executed 147 people, being one of the countries most targeted by human rights defenders
Mohamed Ilias, a Pakistani man was executed this Sunday in the city of Medina (Saudi Arabia) after being convicted of murder. With him, they are already 15 executed this month for various crimes in the kingdom, according to official sources.
Ilias was sentenced for having murdered a person of Bangladeshi nationality, “hitting her with a fire extinguisher on the head several times, causing her death, and also stole her money and hid her body,” according to the official Saudi news agency, SPA. The judge who found him sentenced him to death and her sentence was ratified by a royal order.
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Saudi Arabia applies a very strict version of ‘sharia’ or Islamic law and executes by beheading with a saber. So far this month, this country has already ordered 15 executions in various cities of people sentenced to death for murder, drug trafficking, sodomy or terrorism.
In March last year, this Arab kingdom executed 81 people, 147 for the whole year. These data make you anot one of the worst executioners in the world along with other countries like China, Iran or Egypt. The execution rate in Saudi Arabia has almost doubled since Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman came to power seven years ago and, during this time, the death penalty has been applied to more than a thousand people, according to a complaint last January by the NGO Reprieve and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR).