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    Pakistani national executed in Riyadh for drug smuggling

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    A Pakistani national has been executed in the Saudi capital of Riyadh for smuggling drugs, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

    The kingdom’s interior ministry said that Shahzad Nim Khan was executed on Thursday for smuggling a “quantity of heroin inside his intestines”.

    The ministry said that the accused was convicted by the court with the sentence endorsed by the appeal and supreme courts. A royal order was issued to execute the sentence.

    It reiterated that the Saudi government is “keen on combating narcotics due to their great harm to individuals and the society”, and warned violators of punishment according to Sharia law.

    The kingdom’s laws on drug smuggling are among the strictest in the world and it has carried out multiple executions of those convicted of the crime.

    So far this month, a Lebanese national and a Pakistani national were executed in the kingdom, while last month a Nigerian national was executed in Madinah for smuggling cocaine in his intestines.

    Those executed in the country for drug smuggling last year include five Saudi nationals, four Pakistani nationals, three Yemenis, Two Egyptians, one Syrian national and a Palestinian national.

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    Saudi Arabia Crucifies Myanmar Man for Theft and Murder

    By Abbas Al Lawati
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    Saudi Arabia executed and crucified a Myanmar man in the holy city of Mecca on Wednesday in a rare form of punishment reserved for the most egregious crimes.

    Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen was accused of breaking into the home of a woman from Myanmar, firing a weapon in it then repeatedly stabbing her, which led to her death, the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an Interior Ministry statement. He was also accused of stealing weapons and trying to kill another man whose home he broke into, as well as attempting to rape a woman.

    The ruling was supported by the country’s supreme court and endorsed by the king.

    Crucifixions in Saudi Arabia entail hanging a body in public after an execution, and are unusual. A Yemeni man was crucified in 2010 for raping and killing a girl and shooting dead her father.

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    Pakistani national executed in Saudi for smuggling drugs

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    A Pakistani national was executed in Saudi Arabia’s eastern region on Monday after he was found guilty of smuggling drugs into the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

    Zahed Al-Rahman Shafie Al-Rahman was caught smuggling heroin inside his intestines, the interior ministry said.

    The ministry said that the accused was convicted by the court with the sentence endorsed by the appeal and supreme courts. A royal order was issued to execute the sentence.

    It reiterated that the Saudi government is “keen on combating narcotics due to their great harm to individuals and the society”, and warned violators of punishment according to Sharia law.

    The kingdom’s laws on drug smuggling are among the strictest in the world and it has carried out multiple executions of those convicted of the crime.

    In July, two Pakistani nationals and a Lebanese national were executed in the kingdom, while a Nigerian national was executed in Madinah in June for smuggling cocaine in his intestines.

    Those executed in the country for drug smuggling last year include five Saudi nationals, four Pakistani nationals, three Yemenis, Two Egyptians, one Syrian national and a Palestinian national.

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    Three Saudi nationals executed in Qatif for brutally killing five Indians

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    Three Saudi nationals have been executed in the kingdom’s Qatif region for robbing and killing five Indian nationals, the interior ministry has said.

    Jassem bin Jassim bin Hassan al-Mutawa, a Saudi national was the main accused in the killing of Fadvila Selim, Shajhan Abu Bakr, Akbar Hussein Bashir, Sheikh Daoud and Lasir Amir Asafa Tam, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

    The accused was aided by two Saudi nationals Ammar bin Yusri bin Ali al-Dahim and Murtada bin Hashim bin Mohammed al-Musawi, the report stated.

    The men “lured” the victims to a night at a farm where they drugged them by mixing pills with their drinks.

    The five Indians were then “beaten, shackled and suffocated” to death and robbed of their belongings including money and mobile phones, the report alleged.

    The accused then “disposed off the bodies by burying them in a hole”, it added. The Saudi men were also accused of drinking and smoking cannabis – illegal in the country.

    An investigation led officials to charge the accused, and they were referred to the criminal court.

    Since the actions of the defendants were “prohibited and displayed a form of barbarism and corruption”, the men were sentenced to death, the report said.

    The death sentence was carried out against the three Saudi nationals on Monday in Qatif province in the Eastern Province.

    The interior ministry stressed that the Saudi government aims to maintain security and achieve justice and warned people against violating the kingdom’s safety and security.

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    Saudi Arabia executes Indonesian maid; Jakarta infuriated

    Tuti Tursilawati was executed on Monday, seven years after she was sentenced to death for killing her employer in an act she claimed was self-defence from sexual abuse

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    JAKARTA: Jakarta has filed an official protest with Saudi Arabia after the oil-rich kingdom executed an Indonesian domestic worker without notifying her family or consular staff.

    Tuti Tursilawati was executed Monday in the city of Thaif, Indonesia's foreign ministry said, seven years after she was sentenced to death for killing her employer in an act she claimed was self-defence from sexual abuse.

    President Joko Widodo criticised the decision Wednesday, saying the government has officially protested to Riyadh and demanded better protection of Indonesian workers in the country.

    Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, director at the foreign ministry's Indonesian citizens protection department, told reporters on Tuesday the move was "regrettable".

    "The execution of Tuti Tursilawati was done without notification to our representatives, either in Riyadh or Jeddah," he said at a press conference.

    Tursilawati claimed she was acting in self-defence when she killed her employer in 2010 after he tried to rape her.

    Migrant Care, an NGO advocating for the rights of Indonesian workers abroad, condemned the execution and urged the government to take serious diplomatic steps.

    It said Indonesia should reverse its recent decision to allow a limited number of Indonesian migrant workers to Saudi Arabia despite a 2015 moratorium banning new domestic workers from entering 21 Middle Eastern countries.

    Indonesia introduced the ban following the execution of two other Indonesian maids by Saudi Arabia the same year.

    Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of Islamic sharia law.

    As well as the Middle East, Indonesia also sends domestic workers to many parts of Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and has often complained about the treatment of its workers abroad.

    A Hong Kong woman was jailed for six years for beating and starving her Indonesian maid and keeping her prisoner, in a high-profile case that drew attention to the abuse of domestic helpers in the financial hub. - AFP

    https://www.nst.com.my/world/2018/10...rta-infuriated

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    2018 Death Penalty report: Saudi Arabia’s False Promise

    With crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, 2018 was a deeply violent and barbaric year for Saudi Arabia, under his defacto leadership.

    This year execution rates of 149 executions, shows an increase from than previous year of three executions), indicating that death penalty trends are soaring and there is no reversal of this trend in sight.

    The execution rates between 2015-2018 are amongst the highest recorded in the Kingdom since the 1990s and coincide with the ascension of king Salman to the throne, upon which executions averaged 151.5 during his reign, peaking at 2015 with 157 executions. Such alarming statistics indicate that Saudi Arabia is experiencing one if its darkest periods of repression, under the watch of the current king and his son, the crown prince. There are also concerns that the actual execution rate is higher, as ESOHR has found that Saudi Arabia does not officially report all of the executions that it implements.

    New trends in the death penalty have also emerged in 2018. Worryingly, this year has witnessed an unprecedented expansion in scope of the use of politically motivated death sentences and death penalty recommendations .

    In recent years political death sentences have been disproportionately used against Eastern province activists, using trumped up violent charges despite peaceful dissent, and this discriminatory trend has continued on in 2018. However, this year there has been a widening in scope in use of the death penalty, as the authorities continue to employ it as a political tool of terror, even in the absence of trumped up violent charges. Consequently, new segments of civil society have now been targeted via the death penalty, including female human rights defenders and peaceful clerics, preachers and critics within the kingdom.

    This was compounded by a 2018 UN report published by the (now former) Special Rapporteur on counter terrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, who highlighted serious concerns regarding ‘Use of the death penalty following manifestly unfair trials’, as well as the issuing of death sentences against vulnerable individuals such as those with psycho-social disabilities, minors and those who ‘had been convicted of political offences not involving the use of violence’.

    Whilst public relations companies went to great lengths to hail Bin Salman as the mastermind behind ‘Vision 2030’, a plan which was marketed as a blueprint for reform and prosperity in Saudi Arabia, it has since transpired that these glittery reforms were superficial and a mere distraction strategy from the deep repression being employed against civil society.

    In this regard, Mohammed bin Salman has gone to great lengths to rally support for his ‘modernisation’ plans, using the death penalty issue as a flag to show ‘reforms’. During an international public relations tour in April 2018, in a televised interview with TIME, Mohammed bin Salman said the following when asked about whether there would be an end to executions:

    “We’ve tried to minimize (the death penalty). There are a few areas we can change (or lower the sentence) from execution to life imprisonment. So we are working for two years through the government and also the Saudi parliament to build new laws in that area. And we believe it will take one year, maybe a little bit more, to have it finished. Yeah, of course it’s an initiative. But we will not get it 100 percent, but to reduce it big time”.

    However, this statement is not reflected in the death penalty statistics of 2018. Execution rates have sky rocketed in the last four years do not indicate any attempts to ‘minimise’ or ‘reduce’, with 2018 showing an increase in executions from the previous year.

    Furthermore, if such an intention to reduce the death penalty was genuine, it has not been officially reported and neither has a corresponding immediate moratorium on existing death sentence cases been imposed until the new laws are in place. Therefore, there is no evidence to support the crown prince’s claims.

    This recent recourse to the death penalty, goes against global trends towards abolition of the capital punishment, and questions Saudi Arabia’s commitment to human rights principles, namely the right to life, which is a non-derogable and fundamental human right:

    “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life”. (ICCPR, Article 6)

    These concerning 2018 execution rates and trends reflect the wider abysmal state of the human landscape in Saudi Arabia, a year which witnessed a crackdown on women’s rights defenders who were later tortured in detention, as well as the murder of extra territorial murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom Saudi Arabia acknowledged on October 19, 2018, was killed in its Istanbul consulate by its own agents sent from Saudi Arabia.

    https://www.esohr.org/en/?p=2090

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