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Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly<\/span><\/h4>\n

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King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly, Amnesty International\u00a0said.<\/h4>\n

Despite limited improvements in the field of women\u2019s rights, the Saudi Arabian authorities have pursued a persistent and ruthless crackdown on all forms of dissent by, among other measures, detaining critics and human rights activists, increased their use of the death penalty and maintained practices that discriminate against the country\u2019s Shi\u2019a Muslim minority. The Kingdom\u2019s military has also repeatedly violated the laws of war in its military campaign in Yemen.<\/h4>\n

During first year of King Salman\u2019s reign, the Saudi Arabian authorities carried out the highest number of executions in a 12-month period in two decades.\u00a0Over 151 people were executed between January and November, almost half of them for crimes which under international law must not be punishable by death. Some, such as prominent Shi\u2019a cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, were sentenced to death and executed after grossly unfair trials before the Specialized Criminal Court.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly \u00a0 King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly, Amnesty International\u00a0said. Despite limited improvements in the field of women\u2019s rights, the Saudi Arabian authorities have pursued a persistent and ruthless …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"\nAmnesty International says King Salman\u2019s first year in power has been a dark year for human rights - Shia Waves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/2303-amnesty-international-says-king-salman-s-first-year-in-power-has-been-a-dark-year-for-human-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amnesty International says King Salman\u2019s first year in power has been a dark year for human rights - Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly \u00a0 King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud\u2019s first year in power has seen the country\u2019s human rights record deteriorate markedly, Amnesty International\u00a0said. 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