Saudi beheadings target the poor Amnesty International says

Source: Reuters

Saudi Arabia executes convicted criminals at a rate of more than two a week and almost half of them are foreigners from poor countries, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia regularly executes murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, usually by public beheading, but judges sometimes give the death sentence to armed robbers and people accused of "sorcery" or desecrating the Koran.

The number of death sentences carried out last year shot up to 158, the London-based rights group said, from 36 the year before. Saudi media have talked about a wave of crime by organised gangs, blaming poor Asian labourers.

"The Saudi Arabian government's continuing high use of the death penalty runs counter to the growing international trend towards abolition," Amnesty said.

"The process by which the death penalty is imposed and carried out is harsh, largely secretive and grossly unfair. Judges, all men, have wide discretion and can hand down death sentences for vaguely worded and non-violent offences."



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US.

but what did they chop off if the bad guy is rich? his toe nails? tip of his penis ? what???

It's the NEW WORLD ORDER!

Our practice concerning who among us, generally, pay the harshest penalties for their supposed "crimes" doesn't differ very much from our brutal appearing Saudi bosom buddies. We, us, the citizens of the USA are responsible for "our" country being both hubs of the "Axis of Evil"! We have been horribly evil since the genocide of the "American" aboriginal peoples, continuing through obliterating Nagasaki and Hiroshima, on through war crimes in Vietnam and now Iraq. Our Saudis pals have nothing on us when it comes to senseless brutality or especially killing whole populations of innocents.

Every inhumane atrocity they perpetrate in Saudi Arabia is implicitly, or even explicitly, condoned by our groveling government, their corporate overlords and the super-rich, and the few uber-rich, controlling absolutely everything in OUR world worth the effort. Including you and me! (Me not so much since I am rarely in our country, by my choice...)

Our fascist overlords would like nothing better than to see bushel baskets full of the heads of those who would/could dislodge them from their thrones.

Please hang on to yours and don't be naive.

Think!

maybe the house of Saud will get their comeuppance if oil drops below %50 bbl

always trot out to justify our use of torture in the secret and not so secret prisons? Do you think that they know that one of our favorite "trading partners and business associates" does so much of it?