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فيصل بن فرحان في قمة مجموعة الدول الـ77+ الصين: الاستثمار في تكنولوجيا الطاقة النظيفة سيسهل التحول العادل والشامل نيابةً عن خادم الحرمين الشريفين.. وزير الخارجية الأمير فيصل بن فرحان يلقي كلمة المملكة في قمة مجموعة الدول الـ77+الصين، وقال وزير الخارجية لطالما آمنت المملكة بأن العمل بنهج تكاملي مشترك هو السبيل إلى التنمية والازدهار والاستقرار، وأن الاستثمار في تكنولوجيا الطاقة النظيفة، سيسهل التحول العادل والشامل للطاقة النظيفة، حيث تعمل المملكة ضمن إطار الاقتصاد الدائري للكربون الذي يسهم بتخفيض الانبعاثات الكربونية.وأضاف وزير الخارجية أن تعزيز التعاون الدولي يعد عامل تمكين أساسيًا لتحقيق أهداف المناخ العالمية، خاصةً في مجال الابتكار والبحث والتطوير، لتعزيز تقنيات الطاقة النظيفة وتحقيق طموحات صافي الانبعاثات الصفري.#هافانا | نيابةً عن خادم الحرمين الشريفين.. سمو وزير الخارجية الأمير #فيصل_بن_فرحان @FaisalbinFarhan يلقي كلمة المملكة في قمة مجموعة الدول الـ٧٧+الصين pic.twitter.com/dGW3uxlDlN— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) September 16, 2023 وأضاف الأمير فيصل بن فرحان، أن المملكة تبذل كافة الجهود ضمن إطار اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة لمكافحة التصحر وتعمل ضمن رؤية 2030 على حماية الأراضي والموارد الطبيعية وتفادي أسباب تدهور الأراضي والتصحر، وتتطلع المملكة لاستضافة الدول الأعضاء في مؤتمر الدول الأطراف باتفاقية.

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السعودية تتخذ قرارا بشأن الحج هذا العام (صورة)

أكدت وزارة الحج والعمرة السعودية اليوم الإثنين 22 جوان 2020، أنه تقررت إقامة شعيرة الحج هذا العام بأعداد محدودة جدا للراغبين في أدائها من مختلف الجنسيات من الموجودين في المملكة، وبررت ذلك بالرغبة في الحفاظ على إقامة الشعيرة بشكل آمن صحيا.

كما أضافت الوزارة أن قرار إقامة الحج بأعداد محدودة من داخل المملكة يرجع لما يشهده العالم من تفشي فيروس كورونا المستجد في أكثر من 180 دولة، وعدم توفر اللقاح والعلاج للمصابين، ومن أجل الحفاظ على الأمن الصحي العالمي.

نص البيان الصادر عن وزارة الحج والعمرة بشأن إقامة الحج هذا العام pic.twitter.com/z9B2O1jR2Z

— وزارة الخارجية

(@KSAMOFA) June 22, 2020

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Saudi Arabia: US National sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia

US national Robert Slaten was sentenced to death on 13 July in Saudi Arabia on appeal. A court convicted him of the murder of his wife after a grossly unfair trial. The conviction relied largely on statements made by the victim’s son, who did not witness the crime.

Robert Paul Slaten, a 61-year-old US citizen and father-of-two, was sentenced to death by the General Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, on 13 July for the murder of his wife, a Sri Lankan national. The court had found in 2015 that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of “intentional and aggressive murder”, but the judges used their discretion under Shari’a law to sentence him to five years in prison. His sentence was later increased to death after an appeal process involving both the General Court and the Court of Appeal in Riyadh.

According to trial documents, the General Court had concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Robert Slaten was guilty of murder. However, it then convicted him of the crime by relying on statements made by the victim’s son, who swore 50 times in court that he believed Robert Slaten was responsible for the murder of his mother even though he was not present at the crime scene and provided no substantive information to support his belief. The procedure follows a Shari’a law provision that allows a court to rely on a male heir of the victim expressing at least 50 times under oath his belief that the accused is the perpetrator. Trial records show that at first the victim’s son refused to make these sworn statements but was eventually persuaded to do so by the judges.

Robert Slaten was arrested during the evening of 2 April 2011, outside his home in the residential compound of Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran. According to his family, he was detained incommunicado in solitary confinement for the first two months of his detention. During this time, he was repeatedly interrogated without a lawyer. He claims that during one interrogation he was made to stand in front of a picture of swords and threatened with execution. During others, he was told that he would be allowed to call anyone he liked if he would only “confess” to murder. Robert Slaten had virtually no legal representation throughout his trial. His lawyer only attended a few court sessions at the start of his trial, while US embassy representatives were not present in any of the sessions. He maintains his innocence and has appealed the latest decision, again before the Court of Appeal.

Please write immediately in English, Arabic or your own language:

Calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to quash the conviction of Robert Slaten, and order a retrial with proceedings that fully comply with international fair trial standards and without recourse to the death penalty;

Urging them to ensure that he is granted prompt and regular access to his family and receives effective legal representation;

Reminding the authorities that international safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty require that this punishment be imposed only when the guilt of the person charged is based upon clear and convincing evidence, leaving no room for an alternative explanation of the facts.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 OCTOBER 2017 TO: Minister of Justice His Excellency Waleed bin Mohammad Al-Samaani Ministry of Justice University Street, Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fax: +966 11 4055399 + 966 11 4020311 Salutation: Your Excellency

Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir Ministry of Foreign Affairs Postal Code: 55937 Riyadh 11544 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fax: +966 11 412 2080 Twitter: @KSAMOFA Salutation: Your Excellency

And copies to: Minister of Foreign Affairs, USA The Honorable Rex W. Tillerson Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Minister of Foreign Affairs, USA Salutation: Your Excellency

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz - Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in London, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 30 Charles Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 5DZ tel: 020 7917 3000 or 02079173288, fax 02079173113 email: ukemb@mofa.gov.sa complete the webform here: http://embassies.mofa.gov.sa/sites/uk/EN/ContactDiplomaticMission/Pages/ContactWithDiplomaticMission.aspx; twitter: @SaudiEmbassyUK, Salutation: Your Royal Highness

Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Robert Slaten is from Arkansas, in the south-eastern region of the United States of America. He has worked in Saudi Arabia as a drilling foreman at Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, in the eastern city of Dhahran since 2008. According to court documents, Robert Slaten’s case started before the General Court, a court of first instance, in Riyadh on 10 June 2012. On 27 April 2015, the court found that there was insufficient evidence to convict him of intentional murder under qisas (retribution punishment), which carries the death penalty. Instead, the judges used their discretion (under the Shari’a law principle of ta’zir, which allows the judge discretion to decide on the punishment) to sentence him to five years’ imprisonment and 500 lashes. His sentence was appealed and on 19 October 2015 the Court of Appeal in Riyadh sent the case back to the General Court with comments, to which the General Court responded on 20 March 2016 by increasing the sentence to six years’ imprisonment. The sentence was again appealed and sent back for a second time by the Appeal Court to the General Court, which further increased it on 12 June 2016 to seven years’ imprisonment. In both appeals, the Appeal Court found that the evidence strongly indicated that Robert Slaten murdered his wife and asked the General Court whether the male heir of the victim would swear under oath that Robert Slaten was the perpetrator. The evidence cited in the trial documents to demonstrate Robert Slaten’s responsibility for the killing included elements such as: “The confession by the defendant of having sharp family, moral and financial differences with his wife”; “the implicit confession when he cried and asked to call his brother in the US and the US Consul to ask for advice on confessing, but he came back and insisted that he denied [the killing]; and “the circumstances surrounding the body and where it was found”.

In December 2016, Robert Slaten submitted a further appeal, and the Court of Appeal once again sent the case back to the General Court with additional comments. On 13 July 2017 he was taken back to the General Court in Riyadh and informed that his sentence had been increased to the death penalty.

The court judgement shows that in order to convict Robert Slaten of murder and increase the sentence to death, the General Court, as per the recommendation of the Appeal Court, relied on a Shari’a law provision that allowed it to give considerable weight to sworn statements of a male heir. The provision stipulates that, if the court suspects that the accused has killed the victim and there is demonstrated animosity between the two parties, it can rely on a male heir of the victim swearing under oath at least 50 times that he believes that the accused was the perpetrator. In this case, even though he was not present at the crime scene, the victim’s son swore 50 times in court that he believed that Robert Slaten was responsible for the crime. When asked why he believed that Robert was the perpetrator, he told the court that he believed his mother told him that she was having “problems” with her husband. Records from the trial show that at first the victim’s son refused to make these sworn statements, but was eventually persuaded by the judges to exercise this right.

Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most prolific executioners and has put to death more than 400 people since the beginning of 2014, mostly for murder, drug-related crimes, and terrorism-related offences. As of today, 105 countries have fully abolished the death penalty and over two-thirds are abolitionist in law or practice. Only 11 countries, including Saudi Arabia, are known to have carried out executions every year in the past five years.

UA: 188/17 Index: MDE 23/6880/2017 Issue Date: 8 September 2017

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NEW NEWS: Saudi Arabia granted 400,000 Syrian residents a free public education opportunity, free medical and health services, and visas for family members to join them. @KSAMOFA #InternationalAlliance #SaudiArabia #syria https://www.instagram.com/p/BueMeskFYcvpahuz-oerPerD_Fwgz4Lq0kZruo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iofrbgm5g8v4

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RT @KSAMOFA: #إبداعات_سعودية | نفخر بإبداعات #سليمان_الفليح أحد رواد الأدب والشعر https://t.co/cWHXyPIjH7

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— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) May 14, 2018

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اجتماع أمريكي- سعودي لدعم المعارضة السورية.. والتفاصيل

اجتمع مساعد وزير الخارجية الأمريكي لشؤون بلاد الشام والمبعوث الخاص لسوريا، جويل رايبرن مع وفد مرافق، اليوم الأربعاء، بمسؤولين سعوديين في العاصمة الرياض بهدف تباحث مستجدات الوضع على الساحة السورية.

وأفادت صفحة وزارة الخارجية السعودية على “تويتر” بأنَّ الاجتماع حضره كل من وزير الخارجية السعودي، الأمير فصيل بن فرحان بن عبد الله آل سعود، ووزير الدولة السعودية لشؤون الخليج العربي، ثامر بن سبهان السبها، ووكيل وزارة الخارية للشؤون السياسية والاقتصادية، عادل بن سراج مرداد، ووزير الدولة للشؤون الخارجية، عادل الجبير.

#الرياض | وزير الدولة للشؤون الخارجية عضو مجلس الوزراء #عادل_الجبير يستقبل مساعد وزير الخارجية الأمريكي لشؤون بلاد الشام والمبعوث الخاص إلى سوريا جويل رايبرن. وجرى خلال الاستقبال بحث آخر المستجدات على الساحة السورية والجهود المبذولة حيالها. pic.twitter.com/1z6DrCkekk

— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) February 26, 2020

#أخبار_وزير_الخارجية | الأمير #فيصل_بن_فرحان @FaisalbinFarhan يستقبل مساعد وزير الخارجية الأمريكي لشؤون بلاد الشام والمبعوث الخاص إلى #سوريا جويل رايبرن pic.twitter.com/Pr14A11Yom

— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) February 26, 2020

وتباحث الطرفان آخر المستجدات على الساحة السورية وسبل دعم الجهود المبذولة حيالها، حيث كشفت صفحة السفارة الأمريكية في دمشق على “فيس بوك” عن أن المجتمعين تباحثوا الوضع الصعب في إدلب التي تتعرض لهجوم من قبل نظام الأسد وروسيا والنظام الإيراني.

إنتهينا للتو من مناقشات مثمرة مع شركائنا السعود��ين بحثنا خلالها الوضع الصعب في #سوريا، وخاصة الهجوم العسكري على #إدلب من…

Gepostet von U.S. Embassy Damascus am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2020

اقرأ أيضاً : العقيد “بكور” لستيب: روسيا ستطلب هدنة لوقف الأعمال القتالية وهذا ما سيحصل بإدلب بعد القمة المشتركة

كما ناقش الطرفان الشراكة بين الولايات المتحدة والسعودية بمجالات دعم المعارضة السورية والسعي للوصول إلى حل سياسي للوضع السوري وفق قرار مجلس الأمن الدولي رقم 2254.

والجدير بالذكر أنَّ اجتماع الطرفين تزامن مع تقدم سريع لقوات النظام السوري في ريف إدلب الجنوبي، رافقه تقدم لفصائل المعارضة في الريف الشرقي، وسط مشاركة ضخمة لروسيا والميليشيات الإيرانية بدعم قوات النظام السوري، ودعم من المدفعية التركية لفصائل المعارضة.

اقرأ أيضاً : بإسناد من المدفعية التركية.. المعارضة تطلق عملًا عسكريًا شرقي إدلب وتصل مشارف سراقب

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TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAUDI ARABIA AND THE SAUDI ARABIA AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS ABDULAZIZ ALWASIL FROM ADAM SHANE LAWES (PART 1 OF 2)

To the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Arabia Ambassador To The United Nations Abdulaziz Alwasil thank-you for publicly necessarily stating Australia is criminally racist and evilly Anti-Islamic. As Australia has a horrifying history of being racist and Anti-Islamic, even though Islam was practiced in Australia before the criminal colonisation by the British Monarchy and before Christianity. As Islam was practiced before Christianity was in Australia, when Indigenous-Australians traded on the northern beaches of Australia with Indonesian-Australians who did salat whilst trading in Australia. And Australia's first mosque was built in the 1860's when Muslim Afghan-Australian Cameleers built our desert railways in Australia. And after Australia's evil and criminal "White Australia Policy" first ended 46 years ago, Australia then had many stages of muslim migration to Australia, especially from the Middle East. So now thankfully Australia has a large number of Muslim Middle-Eastern-Australians. However despite this long history of Islam in Australia, the criminal control of Australia by the British Monarchy and the white Anglo-Saxon British Monarchist cruel, criminal, colonial racists in Australia are extremely and criminally racist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-Islamic. As Nazis in Australia are now not only criminally and evilly attacking Jewish People, but evil Nazism in Australia is also now primarily focussed on attacking Muslims. With the criminal and evil burning of Muslim Mosques to the ground, and also the criminal and evil bombing of Muslim Mosques in the criminally British Monarchy ruled Australia having been happening for decades now. And also an Australian Anti-Islamic Nazi did the evil terrorist criminal Christchurch Mosque Massacre recently killing 51 muslims and injuring 49 muslims whilst they did salat at their Muslim Mosques. And as the evil Syrian Dictator al-Assad is causing the world's worst genocide and humanitarian crisis since Hitler and the Nazis and World War II the British Monarchy and also their criminal colonial control of Australia, like the evil Nazis, also have a history including before, during and since World War II of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish people, and also Anti-Islamic attacks on Muslims. So the cruel, colonial, Anti-Semitic and Anti-Islamic British Monarchy and Australian Union Jack needs to be seen as just as evil as the Nazi Swastika. Thank-You, From Adam Shane Lawes.

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خارجية السعودية تعلق على وفاة مرسي بشكل غير مباشر.. وردود

خارجية السعودية تعلق على وفاة مرسي بشكل غير مباشر.. وردود

#إنفوجرافيك_الخارجية | #الإخوان_المسلمين تنظيم إرهابي يعمل للإضرار بالإسلام وتقويض الاستقرار pic.twitter.com/GJxkFOe7a8

— وزارة الخارجية ???? (@KSAMOFA) 17 June 2019

فين جثة خاشقجي ؟

— Motasem | معتصم (@motasemna) 17 June 2019

سفلة !!! الله يرحم الشهيد #محمد_مرسي

— عبدالله الملا @قطر (@q6r) 17 June 2019

الله يرحم #الشهيد_الرئيس_محمد_مرسي

— hamad al-dosari (@HDOSARI) 17 June 2019

وب…

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RT @KSAMOFA: خادم الحرمين الشريفين #الملك_سلمان : نجدد الدعوة إلى إيقاف خطاب العنصرية والكراهية أياً كان مصدره وذريعته https://t.co/LxJjRmWCXb

خادم الحرمين الشريفين #الملك_سلمان : نجدد الدعوة إلى إيقاف خطاب العنصرية والكراهية أياً كان مصدره وذريعته pic.twitter.com/LxJjRmWCXb

— وزارة الخارجية 🇸🇦 (@KSAMOFA) May 27, 2019

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Saudi Arabia: Nigerian at risk of execution

Nigerian national Suliamon Olufemi remains at risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. On 19 April, 11 of his co-defendants were released from prison and deported to Nigeria, having completed their 15-year sentences. Suliamon Olufemi was sentenced to death in 2005 after an unfair trial and has exhausted all of his appeals.

On 17 May 2005, 39-year-old Suliamon Olufemi was sentenced to death in a closed trial in connection with the murder of a policeman in Jeddah in 2002. Eleven other Nigerian nationals were each sentenced in the same case to 15 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. On 19 April, Suliamon Olufemi’s 11 co-defendants were released from Dhaban prison outside Jeddah, southwestern Saudi Arabia, having completed their respective sentences, including being subjected to 1,000 lashes each. On 27 April, 10 of the men were deported to Nigeria while one other was deported approximately one month later to the same country.

Suliamon Olufemi and his co-defendants were among hundreds of foreign nationals from Somalia, Ghana and Nigeria detained in mass arrests in September 2002, following a dispute which resulted in the death of a Saudi Arabian policeman. During his pre-trial detention and throughout his trial, Suliamon Olufemi did not have a lawyer or consular assistance and was not given adequate translation or interpretation facilities. He and some of the other men arrested with him have said that they were tortured and otherwise ill-treated during interrogation and were forced to put their thumbprints as their signature on a statement in Arabic, a language which they could not read, and which they said a judge in the court of first instance referred to as a ‘confession’.

According to information received from the Saudi Arabian Human Rights Commission in 2007, the death sentence against Suliamon Olufemi has been upheld by the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Judicial Council, meaning he has no further recourse to appeal. Suliamon Olufemi is currently detained in Dhaban Prison in Jeddah and has exhausted all of his legal avenues for appeal. He continues to maintain his innocence.

Please write immediately in English, Arabic or your own language:

Urging the Saudi Arabian authorities to quash the conviction of Suliamon Olufemi, and order a retrial in line with international fair trial standards without recourse to the death penalty;

Calling on them to order an independent investigation into his allegation of torture and other ill-treatment;

Urging them to grant him regular access to a lawyer of his choice.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 AUGUST 2017 TO:

King and Prime Minister His Majesty Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques Office of His Majesty the King Royal Court, Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fax: (via Ministry of Interior) +966 11 403 3125 (please keep trying) Twitter: @KingSalman Salutation: Your Majesty

Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir Ministry of Foreign Affairs Postal Code: 55937 Riyadh 11544 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fax: +966 11 412 2080 Twitter: @KSAMOFA Salutation: Your Excellency

And copies to: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria His Excellency Geoffrey Onyeama Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tafawa Balewa House Off Ahmadu Bello Way Abuja Nigeria Email: info@foreignaffairs.gov.ng Twitter: @GeoffreyOnyeama Salutation: Your Excellency

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz - Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in London, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 30 Charles Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 5DZ tel: 020 7917 3000 or 02079173288, fax 02079173113 email: ukemb@mofa.gov.sa complete the webform here: http://embassies.mofa.gov.sa/sites/uk/EN/ContactDiplomaticMission/Pages/ContactWithDiplomaticMission.aspx; twitter: @SaudiEmbassyUK, Salutation: Your Royal Highness

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According to information provided to Amnesty International on 28 September 2002, a group of local men, among them a policeman, arrived in an area of Jeddah where many African nationals worked as car cleaners. A dispute broke out between the local men and the foreign nationals which resulted in the death of a policeman. In the early morning of the following day, security forces in the city carried out mass arrests of foreign nationals. Hundreds of Africans were arrested and subsequently deported, some of them after serving prison sentences and flogging. However, Suliamon Olufemi and 12 other Nigerians are understood to have been held incommunicado until May 2005 when they were first allowed a visit from their consular representative.

It is understood that the trial of the 13 men began in March 2004. On 17 May 2005, Suliamon Olufemi was sentenced to death and the 12 others were handed prison terms and flogging. They were initially said to have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and 500 lashes but their sentences were increased on appeal in 2008 to 15 years’ imprisonment and 1,000 lashes. In September 2008, one of the men, Nurudeen Sani, died in custody. His fellow prisoners have stated he had not been afforded adequate medical attention for illnesses he was suffering.

On 19 April, Suliamon Olufemi’s 11 co-defendants were taken from Dhaban prison to a deportation camp in Jeddah. They were detained there until 27 April when 10 of the men were deported on a flight to Nigeria. Another of the men is still in the deportation camp awaiting his deportation.

According to Shari’a law, if a crime is punished under the rule of qisas (retribution), as in Suliamon Olufemi’s case, relatives of the murder victim have the right to decide if the offender should be executed or pardoned, in which case the death penalty is dropped, sometimes in return for diya (compensation or “blood money”). Pardons by victims’ relatives must be certified by courts of law. However, this does not automatically mean that a convicted person is spared from execution since judges have the power to invoke hadd (divinely prescribed fixed offences and punishments) and consider the murder as harmful to public order in addition to it being a crime against the victim and his family.

Saudi Arabia is one of the top executioners in the world: more than 2400 people were executed there between 1985 and 2016. So far this year it has executed at least 40 people.

The death penalty is used disproportionately against foreign nationals in Saudi Arabia, particularly migrant workers from poor and developing countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Of the total 2,418 executions recorded between January 1985 and December 2016, at least 1,137, or some 47%, were of foreign nationals.

The authorities repeatedly fail to abide by international standards for fair trial and UN Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty. Trials in death penalty cases are often unfair and frequently summary, with no legal assistance or representation for those accused through the various stages of detention and trial. Defendants may be convicted solely on the basis of “confessions” obtained under torture or other ill-treatment.

The Saudi Arabian authorities routinely fail to inform families of detainees and, in the case of foreign nationals, their foreign consulates of the date of executions. They also fail to directly inform them of executions after they have been carried out. In many instances, convicted prisoners are informed of their impending execution a day before it is carried out, specifically when they are taken to a solitary cell in preparation for it. In some cases, including those of foreign nationals, family members and foreign consulates have found out about the execution of their relative or national through the media or public announcements.

The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty at all times, regardless of who is accused, the crime, their guilt or innocence or method of execution.

UA: 156/17 Index: MDE 23/6621/2017 Issue Date: 3 July 2017

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