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The Times<\/a> reports on Saudi Arabia resuming executions for drug offences, despite pledging not to sentence people to death for non-violent crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe alarming rise in executions for drug offences in Saudi Arabia in recent days is at odds with the repeated promises by\u00a0Bin Salman<\/a>\u00a0to reduce the scope of the death penalty, and the moratorium on executions for drug offences announced by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Human Rights Commission,\u201d Reprieve said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are calling on the international community to ask the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to immediately stay Hussein Abo Al-Kheir’s execution, and impose a formal moratorium be put in place on executions for drug offences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Times reports on Saudi Arabia resuming executions for drug offences, despite pledging not to sentence people to death for non-violent crimes. \u201cThe alarming rise in executions for drug offences in Saudi Arabia in recent days is at odds with the repeated promises by\u00a0Bin Salman\u00a0to reduce the scope of the death penalty, and the moratorium … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSaudi Arabia resumes executions for drug offences despite pledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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