Saudi Arabian government have put to death a Nigerian man whose name is Fahid Houssawi on Sunday in the city of Taif. After convictin...
He was found guilty of strangling a policeman and also smashing his head on the ground till he killed him, the ministry said. Amnesty International has warned that at the current rate Saudi Arabia could see more than 100 executions in the first half of 2016 alone.
Amnesty International says that the kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences last year, making it the third most prolific executioner after Iran and Pakistan. Its figures do not include secretive China. The executions this year are “higher than at the same point last year,”
Murder and drug trafficking cases account for the majority of Saudi executions, although 47 people were put to death for “terrorism” offences on a single day in January.
