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Saudi Arabia executes four for drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia executes four for drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia's  interior ministry said four individuals were executed Monday for medication dealing, including one lady, bringing to 53 the number of individuals put to death this year. 

Two Pakistani men, a Yemeni man and a Nigerian lady were executed in the heavenly city of Mecca, the service said in articulations conveyed by the official Saudi Press Agency. 

Fifty-three individuals have been executed in the kingdom since the start of the year, as indicated by a check dependent on authority information discharged by SPA. 

 

The ultra-traditionalist kingdom has one of the world's most elevated execution rates, with those sentenced for psychological warfare, manslaughter, assault, equipped theft and medication dealing confronting capital punishment. 

Rights specialists have more than once raised worries about the decency of preliminaries in the kingdom, administered under an exacting type of Islamic law. The legislature says capital punishment is an obstruction for further wrongdoing. 

A year ago, Saudi Arabia completed the capital punishments of 120 individuals.

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