{"id":77405,"date":"2021-08-05T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=77405"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:24:22","slug":"saudi-arabia-increases-executions-in-2021-after-2020-fall-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/77405-saudi-arabia-increases-executions-in-2021-after-2020-fall-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia increases executions in 2021 after 2020 fall &#8211; rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f5_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f4\u06f7.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia ramped up executions in the first half of 2021 following a drop during its term as G20 president in 2020, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.<br>According to the rights group, the kingdom executed at least 40 people between January and July 2021 &#8211; more than during the whole of last year.<br>Although Saudi Arabia executed a record 185 people in 2019, the state-backed Human Rights Commission said in January that the kingdom had reduced the number of executions by 85% in 2020 compared with the previous year, putting the number for 2020 at 27.<br>Amnesty said executions had resumed immediately after Saudi Arabia handed over the presidency of the Group of 20 rich nations to Italy, with nine people executed in December 2020 alone.<br>&#8220;The brief respite in repression coinciding with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s hosting of the G20 summit last November indicates that any illusion of reform was simply a PR drive,&#8221; said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.<br>According to the rights group, executions took place following convictions in &#8220;grossly unfair trials, marred by claims of torture during pre-trial detention leading to forced &#8216;confessions&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia ramped up executions in the first half of 2021 following a drop during its term as G20 president in 2020, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.According to the rights group, the kingdom executed at least 40 people between January and July 2021 &#8211; 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