Until 2011 Saudi Law of the Dead Part 27 People

Saudi Arabia urged the government to stop executions. Because the number of people executed in the kingdom has increased very sharply in the last six weeks.

Thus the call from the institute of human rights defenders, Amnesty International. The group stated that until the middle of this year Saudi Arabia has been carrying out executions for at least 27 inmates dead. It's as much as the total executions in 2010. In fact, for the month of May alone, 15 people have been executed.

"The government of Saudi Arabia must stop this alarming pattern, which makes the country contrary to the attitude of many countries who oppose the death penalty," said Philip Luther, Deputy Director of Amnesty International for the Middle East and North Africa in a statement issued June 10, 2011.

The number of executions that followed the AI ​​that does not include the recently experienced Ruyati binti Saboti Saruna . He was executed in Mecca on June 18, 2011 on charges of murder involved.

Amnesty International also records that many death row in Saudi Arabia are foreigners. "Amnesty International learned that more than 100 prisoners, many of them are foreigners, have been sentenced to death. The Saudi government should immediately halt the executions and change all the death penalty, even necessary to remove the death penalty altogether," said Luther.

The Saudi Interior Ministry explained the Government Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is committed to uphold the security, justice and the enforcement of the order of Allah against those who attack and kill others. "The government has warned anyone who tried to do the action, whether male or female, will be punished according to religious law," the government statement, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency news agency.