Saudi Arabia executes 48 people in 2018

SANAA, April 26 (YPA) – Saudi Arabia has executed 48 people during the first quarter of the year 2018, half of them convicted in drug cases, Human Rights Watch said in a rapport released on Wednesday.

The organization called on the Saudi regime to “improve its judicial system.”

“A large number of convicted in drug cases are still awaiting execution precession,” the report added.

“The execution of so many people by Saudi Arabia is terrible,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch for Middle East and North Africa Division.

“A number of them have not committed violent crimes.” She added.

Human rights experts have consistently warned that  fair trials in this country are not being carried out.

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