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Saudi Arabia executions condemned as 'repulsive' and 'abhorrent' by UN, EU and UK MPs
The UK government has condemned the mass executions carried out by the Saudi Arabian government this week as “repulsive” and “a deeply backward step”.
Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told MPs the execution of 37 Saudi nationals – including the crucifixion of one man – was “regressive”.
The kingdom’s interior ministry announced the beheading deaths on Tuesday and said they had been executed for “terrorism-related crimes”, sparking international criticism.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said most were minority Shi’ite Muslims who may not have had fair trials and at least three were minors when sentenced, which she said was “particularly abhorrent”
“We really do genuinely disapprove in the strongest possible terms what has happened, particularly when it was reported that one of them was displayed on a cross, something that anyone here just a few days after Easter would find more repulsive.”
Amnesty International said the majority of those executed in six cities belonged to the Shi’ite minority and were convicted after “sham trials”, included at least 14 people who had participated in anti-government protests in the kingdom’s oil-rich eastern province in 2011 and 2012.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-executions-condemned-apos-205655118.html
The UK government has condemned the mass executions carried out by the Saudi Arabian government this week as “repulsive” and “a deeply backward step”.
Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan told MPs the execution of 37 Saudi nationals – including the crucifixion of one man – was “regressive”.
The kingdom’s interior ministry announced the beheading deaths on Tuesday and said they had been executed for “terrorism-related crimes”, sparking international criticism.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said most were minority Shi’ite Muslims who may not have had fair trials and at least three were minors when sentenced, which she said was “particularly abhorrent”
“We really do genuinely disapprove in the strongest possible terms what has happened, particularly when it was reported that one of them was displayed on a cross, something that anyone here just a few days after Easter would find more repulsive.”
Amnesty International said the majority of those executed in six cities belonged to the Shi’ite minority and were convicted after “sham trials”, included at least 14 people who had participated in anti-government protests in the kingdom’s oil-rich eastern province in 2011 and 2012.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-executions-condemned-apos-205655118.html
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the execution by firing squad of four foreign ministry officials after the failure of his Hanoi summit with Donald Trump, a report has claimed.
The officials were reportedly executed after the February talks between North Korea and the US came to an end without any deal being made.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-executes-four-officials-failed-us-summit-report-claims-140135012.html