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    Religion Saudi Arabia executes 134 people including six kids as brutal crucifixions spike

    By Lucy Domachowski, News Reporter - The Daily Star




    More than 134 people have been brutally executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year, including six who were just kids when they were arrested.

    A massive spike in crucifixions and beheadings has seen the slain tortured and slaughtered by brutal methods, according to a human rights organisation.

    In a report presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC revealed a further 24 people are at “imminent risk” of execution.

    They include three children, prominent political opponents of the crown prince, clerics, and human rights campaigners.

    At least six teens were executed this year after being arrested for supposed "crimes" when they were kids, the report claims.

    An event hosted by The Death Penalty Project highlighted the “illegal and arbitrary executions” in Saudi Arabia as well as human rights abuses for both detainees and their families.

    Experts said these abuses have been "exacerbated by the systematic torture of detainees and grossly unfair trials culminating in death sentences".

    Among those executed this year are three women and 51 who were facing drug charges that would be considered minor offences elsewhere in the world.

    At least 58 of those killed were foreign nationals and most were accused of spreading Shia Islam - a crime in the Sunni Arab state.

    There were 21 Pakistanis, 15 Yemenis, five from Syria and four from Egypt.

    Two Jordanians, two Nigerians, a Somalian and two from unidentified nations were also included in the figures.

    On April 22, a horrific mass execution was carried out by the savage regime involving 37 men being killed.

    One was crucified and another had his head impaled on a spike.

    Those killed during the beheading bloodbath had all been convicted of "terrorism offences" in the hardline kingdom.

    One of those beheaded was Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, who was arrested while attending an anti-government protest when he was aged just 16.

    The lad was tortured with electricity and beheaded for sending WhatsApp messages about the protests.

    He was convicted of being a "terrorist" in a trial branded a "farce" by Amnesty International.


    Abdulkareem al-Hawaj was tortured with electricity and beheaded for sending WhatsApp messages about the protests

    He had his head cut from his body in front of a baying, bloodthirsty crowd along with 36 other men in the medieval country.

    At least one of the bodies were reportedly crucified and put out on display after the execution.

    Sentencing a person to death who is aged under 18 is banned under international law.

    Another victim, Mujtaba al-Sweikat, a teenager who was set to start a new life in the US, studying at Western Michigan University, when he was arrested for attending an anti-government protest.


    Mujtaba al-Sweikat was a teenager who was set to start a new life in the US

    The then-17-year-old – who had enrolled in an English language and finance and was at the airport to catch a flight to the US who he was arrested - was badly beaten including on the soles of his feet before he “confessed” to crimes against the state.

    Human rights charities claim he was also tortured into confessing and convicted in a "sham trial."

    The “alarming rise” in state executions comes despite Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's pledge to reduce the use of the death penalty.

    In an interview with Time magazine in 2018 he said: "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... We will not get it 100 per cent, but to reduce it big time."

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    I was chatting with the brown guys at work and mentioned that I'd love to visit the Kashmir area of their country. One of them explained that I should never go there.

    Thought they were having fun at my expense and then the old guy got serious and explained his friend and that person's wife were on a bus near one of the areas on the map I was pointing to (they have national parks up there and the mountains look beautiful).

    He said the guy and his wife were wearing a certain colored clothing right down to her headscarf and soldiers stopped the bus and took people off wearing that color. The guy and his wife were questioned for hours on the roadside, then left there at night as the bus had already gone. Apparently one guy they knew never came back to the town they lived in.

    Dudes at work explained political suspicions can equal death in certain areas, similar to the story about the Saudis above. The also explained the area I wanted to visit was up in the corner, meaning northern India, close to Pakistan and close to the Soviet Union. They said there's something like 50 religions up there. And white faces can sometimes be worth money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hal-9000 View Post
    I was chatting with the brown guys at work and mentioned that I'd love to visit the Kashmir area of their country. One of them explained that I should never go there.

    Thought they were having fun at my expense and then the old guy got serious and explained his friend and that person's wife were on a bus near one of the areas on the map I was pointing to (they have national parks up there and the mountains look beautiful).

    He said the guy and his wife were wearing a certain colored clothing right down to her headscarf and soldiers stopped the bus and took people off wearing that color. The guy and his wife were questioned for hours on the roadside, then left there at night as the bus had already gone. Apparently one guy they knew never came back to the town they lived in.

    Dudes at work explained political suspicions can equal death in certain areas, similar to the story about the Saudis above. The also explained the area I wanted to visit was up in the corner, meaning northern India, close to Pakistan and close to the Soviet Union. They said there's something like 50 religions up there. And white faces can sometimes be worth money.
    It really sucks that the world is like that in some places. One thing I've always wanted to do was go to Egypt and see the pyramids (not that I could afford it right now, but still...) but with the way things are in the whole Middle East/Arab world, there's no way I would feel safe going someplace like that being a white Western person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    It really sucks that the world is like that in some places. One thing I've always wanted to do was go to Egypt and see the pyramids (not that I could afford it right now, but still...) but with the way things are in the whole Middle East/Arab world, there's no way I would feel safe going someplace like that being a white Western person.
    I'm developing a bit of a phobia about it. Every place that looks attractive to go as a tourist seems to have some problem with it.

    What's horrifying in the story you posted is that some of the victims are getting beheaded and crucified because they were caught using the Whatsapp app talking about a protest. And the fact they torture minors as part of a 'trial' where they admit complicity in some imagined political crime.

    It's fucking bullies plain and simple and those are the people that need to be drone targeted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    It really sucks that the world is like that in some places. One thing I've always wanted to do was go to Egypt and see the pyramids (not that I could afford it right now, but still...) but with the way things are in the whole Middle East/Arab world, there's no way I would feel safe going someplace like that being a white Western person.
    I visited the Pyramids earlier this year. Stayed at a hotel near the airport and arranged for the tour guide pick us straight up and drop off at end of day.

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