Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, setting a new record in the country for the highest number of ...

Saudi authorities executed at least 356 people in 2025, Human Right Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The mark set a new record for the highest annual number of executions in the nation since monitoring ...

Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman’s 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been eliminated except for murder ...

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, al-Jasser was convicted of writing a series of social media posts alleging corruption by members of the Saudi royal family. Journalist Turki ...

Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech. President Donald Trump greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the Saudi-US ...

Saudi authorities put two people to death on Monday to reach 17 executions in three days, state media said, as the conservative kingdom accelerated toward a record number of executions this year. Two ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It ...

RIYADH: Shaded by palm trees in a popular Riyadh square, children play where blood once ran, a decade after Saudi Arabia moved its soaring number of executions behind closed doors. Al-Adl Square, ...

Execution figure almost doubles from last year People convicted of non-lethal crimes among those executed Rights groups accuse kingdom of using torture Saudi Arabia denies abuse, cites national ...

Human rights groups and press freedom advocates have criticised Saudi Arabia's execution of an imprisoned journalist over the weekend, the latest in a flurry of death sentences enacted in the kingdom.