Saudi Arabia executes eight Bangladeshi nationals

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Eight Bangladeshi men have been executed in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Friday.
The migrant workers, who were behded in public, were sentenced to dth for the alleged murder of an Egyptian man in April 2007.
Since the end of the Holy month of Ramadan, executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an alarming rate.
“Court proceedings in Saudi Arabia fall far short of international standards for fair trial and news of these recent multiple executions is deeply disturbing,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Middle st and North Africa.Executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an alarming rate since Ramadan.© Amnesty International“The Saudi authorities appr to have incrsed the of executions in recent months, a move that puts the country at odds with the worldwide trend against the dth penalty.”
“The government must establish an immediate moratorium on executions in the Kingdom and commute all dth sentences, with a view to abolishing the dth penalty completely,” she added.
The behdings bring the of executions in Saudi Arabia this yr to at lst 58, more than double than the 2010 figures. Twenty of those executed in 2011 were foreign nationals.
The Bangladeshi men who were executed are Ma'mun Abdul Mannan, Faruq Jamal, Sumon Miah, Mohammed Sumon, Shafiq al-Islam, Mas'ud Shamsul Haque, Abu al-Hussain Ahmed, Mutir al-Rahman.
According to reports, the Egyptian man was killed during a clash between the Bangladeshi workers and a group of men who allegedly were stling electric cable from a building complex where the Bangladeshis worked.
Three other Bangladeshis were sentenced to prison terms and flogging.
Two other Saudi nationals were executed in the northern city of Tabuk, bringing the total of executions on Friday to ten.
Many of those executed in Saudi Arabia in recent yrs have been foreign nationals, mostly migrant workers from poor and developing countries.Defendants often have no defence lawyer and are unable to follow court proceedings in Arabic. They are also rarely allowed formal representation by a lawyer, and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them.
They, and many of the Saudi Arabians who are executed, also have no access to influential figures such as government authorities or hds of tribes, nor to money, both crucial factors in paying blood money or securing a pardon in murder cases.
Saudi Arabia applies the dth penalty for a wide range of offences.
They may be convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress or deception.
At lst 158 people, including 76 foreign nationals, were executed by the Saudi Arabian authorities in 2007. In 2008 some 102 people, including almost 40 foreign nationals, were executed.
In 2009, at lst 69 people are known to have been executed, including 19 foreign nationals and in 2010, at lst 27 people were executed including six foreign nationals.
Source:Amnesty International



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