2023-06-19 16:31:25
The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced, on Monday, the implementation of a “decrease death sentence” once morest a Saudi in the Eastern Province who was accused of terrorist crimes, which included armed attacks on security men and financing terrorism.
The ministry said, in a statement, that it had executed the Saudi Muslim bin Ahmed bin Muslim following he “joined a terrorist cell, armed several times at security men and official vehicles, and fired and threw firebombs at security men while performing their duty with the intent of killing them and disrupting internal security.” And their trafficking in firearms and narcotics, and the financing of terrorism and terrorist acts.
The ministry said that the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court upheld a previous death sentence for the accused, and a royal order was issued to implement it.
In a statement, the Ministry of the Interior affirmed, “The Kingdom’s government is keen to establish security, achieve justice, and implement God’s rulings for anyone who transgresses the innocent or spills their blood.
Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that carries out the death penalty the most, and in 2022 it executed 196 people, which is the largest annual death toll of executions carried out in the Kingdom during the last three decades, according to Agence France-Presse.
Saudi Arabia has carried out more than a thousand executions since King Salman bin Abdulaziz came to power in 2015, according to a joint report by Reprieve and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights, published early this year.
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