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US Ally Saudi Arabia's New King Likes Beheading People More Than His Predecessor
Saudi Arabia is planning to execute dozens of people in a single day, according to Amnesty International who warn that "it is clear that the Saudi Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores." As The BBC reports, 55 people were awaiting execution for "terrorist crimes", while a now-deleted report by al-Riyadh said 52 would die soon; which is on top of the "at least 151 people" who have been put to death since Saudi Arabia's current King Salman rose to power after the death of King Abdullah in January 2015, dramatically higher than the total of 90 in 2014.
As Vice News reports Amnesty International criticized the wave of executions, calling it "a grim new milestone in the Saudi Arabian authorities" use of the death penalty.
"The Saudi Arabian authorities appear intent on continuing a bloody execution spree which has seen at least 151 people put to death so far this year — an average of one person every two days," said James Lynch, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Amnesty International. "The use of the death penalty is abhorrent in any circumstance but it is especially alarming that the Saudi Arabian authorities continue to use it in violation of international human rights law and standards, on such a wide scale, and after trials which are grossly unfair and sometimes politically motivated."
The last time Saudi Arabia executed more than 150 people in a single year was when 192 executions were recorded in 1995. No one at Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry was immediately available to comment on the surge in the numbers of executions. But diplomats have speculated it may be because more judges have been appointed, allowing a backlog of appeals cases to be heard.
Saudi Arabia's current King Salman rose to power after the death of King Abdullah in January 2015, and has moved to consolidate authority among his own branch of the royal family. Upon assuming power, he shook up the cabinet, appointed a new minister of justice, and placed functionaries loyal to him in positions of power throughout the state bureaucracy.
Saudi Arabia has long been ranked among the top five countries to use capital punishment. It ranked number three in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to figures from Amnesty International. The same five countries executed the most prisoners in the first six months of 2015.
However, things are about to get even crazier, as The BBC reports, Amnesty International has expressed alarm at reports that the authorities in Saudi Arabia are planning to execute dozens of people in a single day.
The newspaper Okaz said 55 people were awaiting execution for "terrorist crimes", while a now-deleted report by al-Riyadh said 52 would die soon.
They are thought to include Shia who took part in anti-government protests.
Amnesty said that given the spike in executions this year, it had no option but to take the reports very seriously.
The Saudi newspaper reports said those facing execution in the coming days included "al-Qaeda terrorists" and people from the Awamiya area.
The alleged al-Qaeda militants were accused of attempting to overthrow the government and carry out attacks using small arms, explosives and surface-to-air missiles, Okaz reported.
The Awamiya residents were meanwhile convicted of sedition, attacks on security personnel and interference in neighbouring Bahrain, it said.
Awamiya is a town in the Qatif region of oil-rich Eastern Province. Since 2011, it has been the centre of protests by Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, which has long complained of marginalisation at the hands of the Sunni monarchy.
Among those at imminent risk of execution were six Shia activists from Awamiya "who were clearly convicted in unfair trials", according to Amnesty.
"It is clear that the Saudi Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores," said James Lynch, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa deputy director.
"Three of those six activists were sentenced for 'crimes' committed while they were children and have said that they were tortured to confess."
US ally Saudi Arabia argues that death sentences are carried out in line with Sharia and with the strictest fair trial standards and safeguards in place. Here are 10 sobering facts from Amnesty International’s research:
1. CRUEL, INHUMAN AND DEGRADING PUNISHMENT
Saudi Arabia’s courts continue to impose sentences of flogging as punishment for many offences, often following unfair trials. Besides Raif Badawi, in the past two years the human rights defenders Mikhlif bin Daham al-Shammari and Omar al-Sa’id were sentenced to 200 and 300 lashes, respectively, and Filipino domestic worker Ruth Cosrojas was sentenced to 300. Amputations and cross-amputations are also carried out as punishment for some crimes.
2. SPIKE IN EXECUTIONS
Saudi Arabia is among the world’s top executioners, with dozens of people being put to death annually, many in public beheadings. So far this year 40 people have been executed– almost four times the equivalent number for this time last year.
3. CRACKDOWN ON ACTIVISTS
Besides Raif Badawi, dozens more outspoken activists remain behind bars, simply for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. The authorities have targeted the small but vocal community of human rights defenders, including by using anti-terrorism laws to suppress their peaceful actions to expose and address human rights violations.
4. NO SPACE FOR DISSENT
All public gatherings, including demonstrations, remain prohibited under an order issued by the Interior Ministry in 2011. Those who defy the ban face arrest, prosecution and imprisonment on charges such as “inciting people against the authorities”.
5. SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
Women and girls remain subject to discrimination in law and practice, with laws that subordinate their status to men, particularly in relation to family matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance. Women who supported a campaign against a de facto ban on women drivers face the threat of arrest and other harassment and intimidation.
6. ROUTINE TORTURE IN CUSTODY
Former detainees, trial defendants and others have told Amnesty International that the security forces’ use of torture and other ill-treatment remains common and widespread, and that those responsible are never brought to justice.
7. ARBITRARY ARREST AND DETENTIONS
Scores of people have been arrested and detained in pre-trial detention for six months or more, which breaches the Kingdom’s own criminal codes. Detainees are frequently held incommunicado during their interrogation and denied access to their lawyers. Some human rights activists have been detained without charge or trial for more than two years.
8. ENTRENCHED RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION
Members of the Kingdom’s Shi’a minority, most of whom live in the oil-rich Eastern Province, continue to face entrenched discrimination that limits their access to government services and employment. Shi’a activists have received death sentences or long prison terms for their alleged participation in protests in 2011 and 2012.
9. MASS DEPORTATION OF MIGRANT WORKERS
According to the Interior Ministry, a crackdown on irregular foreign migrant workers in November 2013 led to the deportation of more than 370,000 people. Some 18,000 were still being detained last March. Thousands of people were summarily returned to Somalia, Yemen or other states where they were at risk of human rights abuses.
10. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE KINGDOM, STAYS IN THE KINGDOM
The Saudi Arabian authorities continue to deny access to independent human rights organizations like Amnesty International, and they have been known to take punitive action, including through the courts, against activists and family members of victims who contact us.
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Gotta keep working on that backhand.
Someone should chop this royal cocksucker’s head off already! ;-)
Looney
Next up on the Saudi beheading list...ZH commenters.
However, I'm not going to ask the obvious "Why don't the Saudi citizens rise up?" Why not? Because I haven't done any rising up in my own corrupt society. Shame on me.
This quote highlights the danger inherant with a coopted and corrupted legal process:
"...it is clear that the Saudi Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle political scores."
The fucked up king
(a king?),
of a fucked up nation,
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/geoffrey-clarfield-in-saudi-ar...
of a fucked up theology
(wahabbism)
of a cruel religion.
Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing...
but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.
Qur'an (4:11) - (Inheritance) "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females"(see also verse 4:176).
Qur'an (2:282) - (Court testimony) "And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women."
Qur'an (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them [women]"
Woman publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for driving a car or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-npDX9rO4
raghead's lives matter.
Can we assume that this is similar to planned Progressive reeducation efforts given the response form warshingtun?
I thought so, too.
so do texans' and shale drillers'
I wonder what you think of Deuteronomy or Leviticus.
http://www.alternet.org/story/148016/how_to_kill_goyim_and_influence_peo...'s_shocking_religious_defense_of_killing_non-jews_(with_video)
http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/shahak.html
Ask the Jews. Im a Christian.
Mark 12:31
Matt 25:40
But isn't Saudi the Chair on UN Human Rights Commission?
In San Francisco our head of human rights commission was a fag/pedophile/racist.
Yep he was on Yahoo groups talking about raping little nigger boys on MLK Day.
He was a Gay Icon they say, ushering in the precursor to gay marriage in SF, domestic partners.
He had a ton of porn in his computer and only did a few months in prison, the city even had a week named after him.
He was also a Jew....haha ya can't make this shit up!
http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/06/25/larry-brinkin-sf-gay-rights...
Ironic, the folks most supportive of our foreign Islamic neighbors would in large part be those first executed under Sharia law....
Russia Will Nuke Them......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
ZH spambot Noplebian likes spamming more than imaginably possible.
It's getting worse lately. It doesn't help that all of the ZH email addresses like "tips" or "abuse" bounce with an error message.
Clikbait
learn to recognize it
ignor it
love it
pay's Tyler's bill's *
* or Tyler does have a very bad webhoster
glow little turkey glow
Get him in a room alone and see how hard is is!
The filthy cesspit that is Geopolitics......the world turns a blind eye to this but condemns Russia for defending it's borders against the Jews!
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
The cruel, corrupt, criminal cabal that rules Saudi Arabia can only produce cruel criminals. How many folks have you beheaded today?
Yemen hospitals ‘deliberately’ targeted in 100 attacks since March – ICRC
Medical facilities in war-torn Yemen are being ‘deliberately’ attacked, with some 100 incidents reported since the Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes in March, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, calling on all sides to cease hostilities.
https://www.rt.com/news/321522-yemen-hospitals-deliberately-targeted/ …
Here is a partial list of Saudi Arabia's other crimes in Yemen:
At least 3,500 have been killed as a result of the Saudi-led war, launched on March 26 of this year. Some 1,700 of these have been confirmed as civilians, according to the UN, with some 3,800 more civilians confirmed wounded.
Nearly 80 percent of the Yemeni population faces conditions of starvation, near starvation, and/or lack of reliable access to drinking water.
More than 1.2 million Yemenis have been forced to flee their homes by the war. At least 50,000 of the displaced have fled the country entirely, seeking refuge in neighboring countries of Oman, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.
Responsibility for the bloodshed and humanitarian disaster in Yemen lies squarely with Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf monarchies and their backers in Washington.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/20/yeme-j20.html
Whem you have to flee to Somalia for refuge - you've discovered the meaning of doom.
We have just the bestest mideast allies
http://www.hangthebankers.com/israeli-jailed-6-months-for-burning-baby-a...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
Real salt of the earth types.
And loyal!
http://youtu.be/QphxGBXiA-M
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/11/23/israel-americas-biggest-fr...
You just know that Barry is green with envy.
2015 muslim values are now european values
merkel said islam belongs to europe
steinmeier, germans jewish foreign minister was warned and forbidden to talk about any human rights when he visited his best friends and partners in saudia arabia last month, to discuss further projects of building 2000+ mosques in germany and europe with arabs money
muslim and arab values enrich europeans homosexual suicide/genocide society
want a kebab with typical expired meat flavour?
ms merkel will be driven into the north sea
Ten bucks says they have a dungeon full of children, women and men for their enjoyment.
and camels
And goats.... don't forget the goats!
They just need more sacred, unsearchable cellar space for AK storage.
Off topic:
If anyone wants to see real time what the demand is for silver at these levels take a look at this ebay ad:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPECIAL-PRICE-2015-1-oz-Silver-American-Eagle-BU...
refresh it a few times and observe how quickly supply is being devoured.
7 orders in 60 seconds for me.
420/hr is pretty peppy.
Tampons or Silver..........Hmmmm
Can't eat
But
One
Covers half of the population
That was quick! Basicaly Apmex just sold apprx 62,000 ounces of silver eagles in about 3 hours at silver's current prices. That's just one outfit on Ebay so imagine what's going on across the board, bricks and morter shops, LCS's, Amazon, etc.
"Salam alaykum Guinness, I want to submit a new category for your fabulous book of records..."
Is this specific to beheading, or does Dubya's 152 get an honorable mention?
As long as we're talking about priveleged serial killers at large....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTCWswuJKQE
Maybe he could do barack ovomit for us...
There is some old saying like "You are the company you keep".
Most savage countries in the world.
1. Tukrey
2. Saudi
3. Qatar
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.
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X. Daish
turkey is a country? i always thought its a bird then i heared other people calling it a donkey
now im confused
the turks are the most blood thirsty criters to eve crawl this planet
Good thing that killing people in other countries by the millions counts as "civilized".
to the sound of trumpets.........
The US supports Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and ISIS.
Where would you rank the US?
Motto of King Salman: "Heads we win. Heads you lose."
I have had some silly, misinformed and generaly ignorant people tell me that The U.S. wants Assad out of power in Syria because of his treatment of Syrian citizens.
After I finish laughing I point out that if that was really true we would be working on ousting the house of Saud too.
It is complicated, but suffice it to say that Syria is not key to maintaining the PetroDollar standard, and because the PetroDollar is essential to support and maintain the viability of the Western economies, the U.S. must do the bidding of those scurrilous Saudimites. And they want Assad OUT.
It is regrettable to say but the reality is that never has a nation prostituted itself to such a degree in instigating or supporting activity that can only be deemed evil, short sighted or just plain stupid. Nor has any nation ever spent so much money making so many enemies and supporting so many ratbags.
The dangerous thing in all this is that it will ultimately perpetrate one giant destructive act when faced with the ignominy of being pushed off its pedestal as a military and financial superpower.
It was all FDR's fault; he loved to shake hands; first Stalin at Yalta then Saud at Port Said.
I guess once he had shaken that hand the dust bowl became black gold. FDR had the Midas touch. He made Stalin top dog as he did for Eisenhower and Saud.
But more probably, by then, Chevron was actively drilling and Allan Dulles may have sung something into his ear that the world heard five to ten years later.
Oil is a secretive game. Was and is. And Dulles was the man who made secret into spice of warmongery. Oil being the spice of riches for those who owned it as pardners in crime; going deep shit hegemonial and blind obscurantist, side by side.
Now the secret is on the other foot and Dulles has created the machine that never stops wanting moar and moar on other people's wealth taken for granted.
That King beheader, crucifier and lasher probably tucks his dick between his legs as he looks in the morror..... "IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET!"
That's a human rights representative right there. Any questions about what is going on here?
For those of you that are not aware - putin just announced saudi arabia his one of the most valued allies in the region.
Well, they are next on the list ya know.
Human rights...THINNING.
That is the way those crazy camel jockeys are......
Saw a picture taken around 1910 of a small group of those folks with their swards and other weapons..
They are badass, let them just battle it out.....
Eventually they will get the population down to something that we can handle...
Saudi is ruled by Sabbteans crypto-jews like in Turkey, Europe, in the US and UK is very clear that jews openly flaunt their power over the Anglo cattle.
peltast: the tragedy is you probably vote also. wtf is a crypto jew? they are all scum from eastern europe have as much to do with the aramaic people as you have with brains
Crypto jews? here you go...
crypto jew is a Templar kept in a crypt in Jerusalem by Saladin and then let loose three hundred years later so that he tells the world "i'm a judeochristian who has seen the chalice with a malice from land of Moses and its now full of champagne. hallejuhia we have hit the jackpot."
God is an enigma wrapped in a mufti head scarf and his representatives on earth can't tell shit from shineholia. So stick to Dionysius's gift to man.
Arsitotle never had that problem. He invented science.
arab heads matter lmao
the longer i am alive the more i realize that i am the only decent person on this planet................FUCK YOU! YOU DESERVE IT!
Cameron pushed for Saudi Arabia to get the Chair of the Human Rights Council at the UN. I guess Cameron ought to get a Nobel Prize too.
2 complete dicks leading the Free World.
our friends
Our Masters.
I'm thinking a arms drop by parachute (Amazon drone delivery?) of millions of loaded small arms would put the fear into those brave beheading fellows. You brought a sword to a gun fight? Bummer for you dude! Bang, bang out go the lights!
I'm sure that lots of USA Colt 45's or even 9mm's would be available for Russia to arrange random scattering across various cities.
Watching SA support ISIS, behead people indiscriminately, stone people to death and so on ... simply makes me value our 2nd Amendment even more. The 1st Amendment, and mos tof the others are not worth much without the 2nd behind them.
Revolting how the us has helped the saudis spread islamic ultra-fundamentalism and brutally oppress people for *decades*.
Revolting, but typical
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/balance-un-gaza-report...
left handed executioner !
that is the hand of the devil ! (according to the Sharia).
So is Saudi justice now armed by Shaitan?
BTW / Hollande, Cameron and US all love the lords of Saudi Justice.
ISIS is not Saud in their books nor is it Erdogan of Constantinople.
When Qanun of Soleiman becomes Sharia's collaborator in Mecca its the prophet's teeth that the Caliph of Istanbul has betrayed. Those teeth as well as his hair and other symbols were sent to Istanbul in 1517 to show that the Caiiph had moved from Mameluke Cairo to the Sublime port.
Erdogan ? Do you know the difference between Qanun and Sharia? Even in Ottoman times Qanun checkmated literal intrepretation of Sharia. All Moslem schools in those medieval times had enuff sense to tell the difference between rabid obscurantism and scholastic interpretation of God's metaphors.
That is the question those two jailed journaliists are asking. Attaturk defined Qanun in a secular constitution in post Ottoman Turkey.
11. Beheading followed by crucifixion.
The despotic Royals in Saudi Arabia are inbred savage animals.
Blood Porn.
Did you hear the story of the UAE bankrolled by the Saudis sending
500 Colombian mercenaries to Yemen.Pay is $3000/month and
$1000/week while in Yemen. Weekly pay in Yemen is based on
life expectancy
They need to bring in some of their ISIS buddies to show them how to cut a head off.
Well, now we know why there's no opposition to their UN human rights chair.
Reptilians
Must be nice being able to pick and choose who comes to and who stays in your country, keep troublemaking women and minorities far from the reins of power, put the worst troublemakers out of business before they do too much damage, and not only get no complaints from anybody in a position to do anything about it but have them falling over themselves offering to destroy your enemies for you at almost any cost to themselves and their tax- and debt-peons.
Such are the privileges enjoyed by countries who are not only not controlled but positively feared by Wall Street.
As long as they sell oil in dollars, they're innocent.
If America had treated the Arabs in the 1940s as it treated the Plains Indians a century earlier, none of this would have happened. The eastern third of the Arabian Peninsula would now be a US territory or state inhabited by Texas roughnecks, with a few Arabs in traditional garb dancing and waving their swords for tourists.
Saudi Arabia was the only MENA member to be founded on 'JIHAD'!
The Salafist`Wahhabism credo is without a doubt the 'oil sheikhs' boogey-man for keeping the passive population under total control.
How they do it? :: Sharia Law in Saudi Arabia is the WORD!?!
http://billionbibles.org/sharia/saudi-arabia-sharia-law.html
http://www.saudiembassy.net/about/country-information/laws/The_Basic_Law_Of_Governance.aspx
After all the heads are cut off and scattered about,... the scene looks like a grotesque pumpkin-patch macabre of barbarism condoned by the world's finest humanist minds concerning 'Human Dignity and Rights'.
surely this is 'belial's work...
to illustrate my point, think of a pumpkin-patch where the pumpkins are human heads all carved up, and the tyme of year is present day in the land of Saud... this 'Saudi haunting image of Halloween in November 'Day of Horror' memorial, as surreal as it gets, and, in your face that hell is good for thy infidels'?!? hooray for ISLAM -)
http://freehdw.com/images/800/puumkin-patch-halloween-autumn-wide.jpg
@ perhaps someone on ZH can illustrate the scene
Ps. Before becoming King,... Salman was the biggest proselytizer of jihad [salesman of satan incarnate] in all of central asia. turning AfPak into a hellhole for wahhabi`jihadist fanatics. and now he is the 'King of the Jungle', where the only animals that exist walk on two legs!!!
Call to the devil
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Oillah Hoo A-kabar
(Oil demon , come out of your grave)
Muhammed-ur-rasool oillah
(And Muhammed-representsTheOilDemon)
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Petroleum & gas are the dead bodies of ancient creatures.
And Abrahmic religions say that the dead shall come out of their grave & then there will be judgement day.(nuclear war due to oil)
The oil demon will lead the world into nuclear war endangering the entire planet
qyamat
your time has come SatanWorshippingWahabbis
Asuras : Your Gawd demands blood as he did to Abraham