Saudi Arabia beheads 12 people in 10 days for drug-related offences: report
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New Delhi: As many as 12 people were executed in Saudi Arabia after courts here handed down death sentences to those convicted on non-violent drug charges, reports say.
Three Pakistanis, four Syrians, two Jordanians and three Saudis were among those died on the scaffold in the last 10 days in drug related offences, as per a report by Telegraph, UK.
A previous bout of execution in March this year saw Saudi Arabia taking to scaffold 81 people who were facing charges including killing, and association with militant groups.
The execution of 12 people comes two years after Saudi Arabia declared to cut on the capital punishments.
The administration previously in 2018 promised to execute only those found guilty of murder or manslaughter, according to a report in India Today.
Back in 2020, the kingdom's Human Rights Council claimed that the government stopped executing non-violent drug offenders, achieving 85 percent cut in capital punishment.
HRC President Awwa Alawwad reportedly stated at the time that "the kingdom is giving more non-violent criminals a second chance."