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    Saudi Arabia arrests man who filmed execution pardon

    Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested a state employee accused of filming a public execution that was stayed at the last minute, reportedly after a pardon from the victim’s family.

    The man, who has not been publicly named, has been referred to the public prosecutor in the capital Riyadh for questioning.

    The footage appears to have been shot in secret through a window overlooking the public square where the execution was due to be carried out.

    The police spokesman, General Fawaz bin Jamal al-Mayman, said the arrested man had “exploited his place of work” to shoot the clip.

    Mayman warned that filming such incidents and broadcasting the footage was a “clear violation of the legal regime”, saying it could serious consequences.

    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sa...ardon-54236660
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    Warrant Here https://twitter.com/ali_adubisi/stat...10078534328320

    Translation of tweet: Saudi Arabia returns to performing executions in public on Tuesday 9am according to a letter (top secret/urgent and important) with an accused in a drugs case after it (execution) was performed in prison.

    Execution Warrant Casts Light On Saudi Death Penalty

    An execution warrant in Saudi Arabia was published to social media on Tuesday, providing a rare insight into how the death penalty is implemented in the secretive kingdom.

    The warrant, posted to Twitter, ordered an unnamed prisoner to be executed in “Retribution Square” in the northern town of Qurayyat at 9am (0700 GMT).

    The order was signed by the local police chief Mufdhi bin Abdallah al-Khamees and it instructed the Qurayyat General Hospital to “carry out the necessary procedure upon receipt of the prisoner’s corpse” after the execution had taken place.

    A doctor was also ordered to be present at the execution, which in Saudi Arabia is typically a public beheading carried out by a masked executioner with one blow to the neck with a long curved silver sword.

    The doctor was required to attend the beheading to confirm the prisoner’s death.

    British human rights group Reprieve said they had information the execution was carried on Tuesday as ordered.

    Reprieve said the publishing of the execution warrant exposed the nature of human rights abuses in the kingdom.

    http://www.mintpressnews.com/gruesom...enalty/221747/
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    Saudi Arabia Executes More Than 150 After Sentencing Them To Death In Secret Courts

    More than 150 executions were carried out in Saudi Arabia in 2016. At least 153 people, including some juveniles and some non-violent drug offenders, have been killed so far, according to data collected and published Monday by the human rights organization Reprieve.

    “Saudi Arabia’s 2016 execution total is fast approaching last year’s shocking high, with some 153 prisoners killed,” said Reprieve’s director Maya Foa in a press release. “Among those executed were political protesters, people arrested for alleged drug offenses, prisoners who were tortured into ‘confessions,’ and juveniles.”

    One hundred fifty-eight executions were carried out in Saudi Arabia in 2015, including 63 for nonviolent drug crimes, according to Human Rights Watch. This year, 23 people were executed for drug offenses and at least four juveniles were killed during a mass execution in January. Many of the drug offenders were trafficking victims forced into drug smuggling. Reprieve also reported juveniles on death row were subject to severe mistreatment including being beaten and isolated in solitary confinement.

    An estimated 47 of those executed were put on trial in Saudi Arabia’s secret Specialized Criminal Court in the capital of Riyadh. In December, the kingdom sentenced 15 people to death at the secret court for spying in Iran.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-ara...143400877.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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