Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Saudi Arabia: Record Number of Executions in 2025

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Al-Safat Square, a location where public executions used to take place, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, August 18, 2022. © 2022 Johannes Sadek/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images (Beirut) – 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 monitoring began, Human Rights Watch said today. This is the second year in a row that Saudi authorities have set a new execution record, with 345 registered in 2024. “The close of 2025 crystallized a horrifying trend in Saudi Arabia…

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