UN Alarmed at Jump in Saudi Executions ...

by **Happy Life** Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:51 pm

Friday, January 6, 2012

UN Alarmed at Jump in Saudi Executions ...

Looks like Saudi is
being primed ... Remember .. March 1, 2011 - Lindsey Williams - get
ready for a $5 at the gas station - Lindsey Williams: Saudi Arabia is
next - Oil will go over $220 a barrel get ready for a $5 at the gas
station MI6 Funded Muslim Brotherhood and Their "Day of Rage" Coming!
Saudi Arabia is next - Oil will go over $220 a barrel the dollar will be
dead by 2012. link

January 06, 2012

UN alarmed at jump in Saudi executions

The
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday said it was
alarmed at the almost threefold increase in the use of the death
penalty in Saudi Arabia last year.

"We are alarmed at the
significant increase in the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia in
2011," said spokesman Rupert Colville at a regular press briefing.

Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences.

"What
is even more worrying is that court proceedings often reportedly fall
far short of international fair trial standards, and the use of torture
as a means to obtain confessions appears to be rampant," he added.

At
least 76 death row inmates were executed in 2011, according to
accounts, while Amnesty International believes that Saudi Arabia carried
out at least 79 executions during this period.

In 2010, 27 people were executed, according to the UN, citing a report by Human Rights Watch.

Rape,
murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by
death in Saudi Arabia, which strictly applies sharia or Islamic law.

So-called cross amputation of the right hand and left foot is applied in cases of highway robbery, according to the UN.

"We
call on the authorities to halt the use of such cruel, inhuman,
degrading punishment. As a party to the Convention against Torture,
Saudi Arabia is bound by the absolute prohibition against the use of
torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,"
Colville said.

http://goingglobaleastmeetswest.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-alarmed-at-jump-in-saudi-executions.html#more

In the US we executed 43 people last year also:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2011

Who is going to help us? ~ HL