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Saudi Arabia Executes Seven Africans In One Day Over Drug-Related Offenses

August 3, 2025
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Saudi Arabia has executed eight people, seven from Africa, in a single day amid a surge in the use of the death penalty for drug-related convictions.

Four Somalis and three Ethiopians were executed on Saturday in the southern region of Najran “for smuggling hashish into the kingdom”, the Saudi Press Agency said.

One Saudi man was executed for the murder of his mother.

Since the beginning of 2025, Saudi Arabia has executed 230 people, according to official reports. Most of those executions, 154 people, were on drug-related charges.

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The pace of executions puts the kingdom on track to surpass last year’s record of 338 instances of capital punishment.

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Analysts link the spike to the kingdom’s “war on drugs” launched in 2023, with many of those first arrested only now being executed following their legal proceedings and convictions.

Saudi Arabia resumed executions for drug offences at the end of 2022, after suspending the use of the death penalty in narcotics cases for around three years.

It executed 19 people in 2022, two in 2023, and 117 in 2024 for narcotics-related crimes, according to the AFP tally.

Saudi authorities say the death penalty is necessary to maintain public order and is only used after all avenues for appeal have been exhausted.

However, activists say the kingdom’s continued embrace of capital punishment undermines the image of a more open, tolerant society that is central to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 reform agenda.

‘Disregard for human life’
Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, has called the trend of executions “truly horrifying”.

“Saudi Arabia’s relentless and ruthless use of the death penalty after grossly unfair trials not only demonstrates a chilling disregard for human life; its application for drug-related offences is also an egregious violation of international law and standards,” said Ms Beckerle.

“We are witnessing a truly horrifying trend, with foreign nationals being put to death at a startling rate for crimes that should never carry the death penalty,” she added.

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