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

Saudi Arabia has surpassed its record for the number of executions carried out annually for a second year in a row. At least 347 people have now been put to death this year, up from a total of 345 in ...

Saudi authorities executed 356 people in 2025, according to an AFP tally, setting a new record for the number of inmates put to death in the kingdom in a single year. Analysts have largely attributed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Executions in several countries that retain the death penalty surged in 2025, despite abolition campaigns gaining momentum ...

International monitoring groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say weaknesses in the Saudi justice system make convictions unsafe and point to the frequent use of execution for ...

Outraged protesters stormed Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Iran on Saturday after the execution of a high-profile cleric. Among those put to death was Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. al-Nimr “was a prominent, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent Saudi journalist who was arrested in 2018 and convicted on terrorism and treason charges has been executed, the kingdom said. Activist groups maintain ...

The figures from 2025 mark the second consecutive year Saudi Arabia has set a new record for executions, after authorities executed 338 people in 2024 amid a deadly crackdown on drugs ...