On October 20th 2025, Abulallah al-Derazi was executed by the Saudi Arabian government. Al-Derazi was convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to death in 2018, on the basis of a torture tainted confession. He was arrested in 2018, for having participated in protests in al-Qatif against the government’s unfair treatment of the Shia minority in[…]
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Sep
Sep
On 21 August 2025, a new name was added to Saudi Arabia’s alarming and ever-growing list of executions: Jalal Labbad, a young man put to death for alleged crimes committed as a child. His supposed offense was participating as a teenager in the 2011 and 2012 Al-Qatif protests against the systemic discrimination faced by the[…]
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Sep
Sep
By executing minor Jalal Labad on August 21, 2025, Saudi Arabia has once again exposed its systematic use of capital punishment to silence dissent and eliminate perceived opposition. The killing of Jalal, who was only 17 at the time of his arrest, marks a devastating escalation in the Kingdom’s campaign of repression. According to the[…]
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Jul
Jul
Saudi Arabia is accelerating its use of the death penalty with alarming speed. In 2024 alone, the Kingdom carried out 345 executions, the highest number in 30 years, averaging one every 25 hours. That brutal pace has only intensified. As of mid-June 2025, 154 executions have already been confirmed, pointing toward another record-breaking year. Among[…]
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May
May
The use of the death penalty is on the rise in Saudi Arabia. One person was executed every 25 hours in the country with a staggering 345 people executed in 2024. This is in spite of international calls for an end to the practice. Normally, the death penalty is reserved internationally for the “most serious”[…]
