The kingdom has put at least 206 people to death in 2024.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks at the Shura Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sept. 18, 2024.Saudi Arabia is seeking a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote scheduled for Oct. 9, hoping to reverse its 2020 failure to win a spot on the 47-seat body.
Riyadh continued its executions, including those of people charged for offenses allegedly committed while they were minors. "We don't know what it actually says, but we do know that it's not being implemented," she told ABC News. "From the moment of his arrest we tried to reach him, but they kept him in solitary confinement for almost three months," the family members -- who did not wish to be identified individually for fear of reprisal -- told ABC News.
"He still suffers from foot pain due to the torture and was forced to sign confessions," his family said. "In Saudi Arabia, they know how to bend you," said Ibrahim -- which is not his real name. "They could kill him at any time." Death penalty cases are often routed through the Specialized Criminal Court, created in 2008 to clear a backlog in terrorism cases but often used to try human rights activists and anti-government protesters.
Saudi Arabia -- long a vital pillar in U.S.-Israeli efforts to isolate and contain Iran -- became even more important after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which sparked off a new conflict that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. "Saudi Arabia is quite intelligent at using these moments of chaos around the world," Basyouni said. "They're quite good at knowing when public attention is distracted, when there's no space in newspapers to cover this."
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