Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, setting a new record in the country for the highest number of ...

The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned by an alarming escalation in executions in Saudi Arabia, in which authorities implemented in the past weeks the execution of Abdullah al-Derazi, who ...

Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, Human Right Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The mark set a new record for the highest annual number of executions in the nation since monitoring ...

Execution figure almost doubles from last year People convicted of non-lethal crimes among those executed Rights groups accuse kingdom of using torture Saudi Arabia denies abuse, cites national ...

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech. President Donald Trump greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the Saudi-US ...

LONDON -- Saudi Arabia is seeking a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote scheduled for Oct. 9, hoping to reverse its 2020 failure to win a spot on the 47-seat body. The kingdom ...

Saudi authorities put two people to death on Monday to reach 17 executions in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated toward a record number of executions this year. Two ...

A Berlin-based Saudi rights group on Monday criticised the recent execution of a Saudi national on terrorism charges, accusing authorities of falsifying claims that he belonged to the Al-Qaeda ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It ...

RIYADH: Shaded by palm trees in a popular Riyadh square, children play where blood once ran, a decade after Saudi Arabia moved its soaring number of executions behind closed doors. Al-Adl Square, ...

Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been eliminated except for murder ...