Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that it has killed 81 individuals in one day for a range of terrorism-related offenses, outnumbering the total number of executions in the country for the whole year.
According to the official Saudi Press Agency, all had were “found guilty of perpetrating many terrible crimes,” with inmates belonging to the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Yemen’s Huthi rebel forces, or “other terrorist organizations” among them.
They were planning assaults on critical economic locations, targeting or killing members of the security services, and smuggling weapons into the nation, according to the SPA.
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73 of the 81 individuals were Saudi citizens, seven Yemenis, and one Syrian national.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, all individuals executed were tried in Saudi courts, with 13 judges overseeing proceedings in three phases for each defendant.
The affluent Gulf state has one of the highest execution rates in the world.
Saturday’s statement represents the kingdom’s greatest number of executions in a single day, surpassing the year’s total of 69 executions.
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