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The Times<\/a> reports on Saudi Arabian prisoners on death row for drug offences, after the an end to an informal moratorium on the use of the death penalty for drug offences imposed in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeed Basyouni of Reprieve said \u201cThe similar theme with both drugs and children is that Saudi Arabia made promises in 2020 that they were reforming their use of the death penalty \u2014 they were no longer going to execute child offenders, there was a moratorium on drugs \u2014 and we have just seen this rollback on those promises.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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