The UN human rights chief on Monday condemned Saudi Arabia's execution of a record 81 people in a single day, and urged the kingdom to stop using the death penalty.
GENEVA - The United Nation human rights chief on Monday condemned Saudi Arabia's execution of a record 81 people in a single day, and urged the kingdom to stop using the death penalty.
All had been "found guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes", the official Saudi Press Agency reported, saying they included convicts linked to the Islamic State jihadist group, Al-Qaeda, Yemen's Huthi rebel forces or "other terrorist organisations". "Our monitoring indicates that some of those executed were sentenced to death following trials that did not meet fair trial and due process guarantees, and for crimes that did not appear to meet the most serious crimes threshold, as required under international law," Bachelet said.
The Saudi authorities should return the bodies of those executed to their families, the former Chilean president said. Bachelet said that Saudi Arabia was among 38 countries that continues to implement the death penalty.
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