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After Abdullah’s death in 2015, his half-brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz, became sultan. The human rights organization Reprieve and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights reported that the average execution rate in Saudi Arabia was 70.8 percent between 2014 and 2016.
The death penalty in Saudi Arabia has increased at an “abnormal rate” under the reign of Sultan Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The number of executions in West Asia’s largest country has more than doubled under former Sultan Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, two international human rights organizations report. At the same time, incidents such as human rights violations and torture have also increased in the report.
After Abdullah’s death in 2015, his half-brother, Salman bin Abdulaziz, became sultan. The human rights organization Reprieve and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights reported that the average execution rate in Saudi Arabia was 70.8 percent between 2014 and 2016. However, after Salman became Sultan of Saudi Arabia in 2015, this rate rose to 129.5 percent that year! A recent figure shows that the death penalty rate in Saudi Arabia has risen abnormally due to the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in administrative duties. In 2022, 147 people were hanged in that country. 81 of them in March alone! There are many political defendants among them.
Yuvraj Salman has also been accused of “murdering” critics. Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a staunch critic of the Prince, was allegedly ‘murdered’ in 2018 at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. The murder is alleged to have been carried out at the behest of Salman.
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