Riyadh imposed the death penalty on nearly 200 people this year, the highest number since 1990
Oct. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Union has shown this Monday its concern about the “serious” increase in executions in Saudi Arabia in the last months of this year, after Amnesty International has reported that the highest number of people executed in the country has been recorded. since 1990.
“The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman punishment, incompatible with the inalienable right to life, has no deterrent effect against crime, constitutes an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity and makes judicial errors irreversible,” reads a statement from the press team of the European Foreign Service.
Likewise, he has indicated that he “firmly opposes the death penalty at all times and in all circumstances” and that he “will continue to work for the abolition of the death penalty in the few countries that still apply it.”
AI reported this weekend that Saudi authorities have executed more than 198 people so far this year, the highest number recorded in the country since 1990, despite repeated promises to limit the use of the death penalty. .
“The authorities of Saudi Arabia are carrying out a wave of relentless murders that show a chilling disregard for human life, while promoting a campaign empty of words to change their image,” said then the secretary general of the NGO, Agnès Callamard. .
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