81 people involved in several heinous crimes like rape, murder, attack on places of worship, links with terrorists have been hanged in a single day. Saudi Arabia has given death sentences to so many people at once.
Local agency Saudi Press Agency said that on Saturday, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry hanged all these people. Many of these worked with the dreaded terrorist organizations ISIS and Al-Qaeda, while many others were involved in incidents like murder and rape.
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Apart from the residents of Saudi, this death sentence has also been given to some foreigners. Most of them were residents of Yemen.
They were all involved in crimes like targeting religious places and government institutions, killing of security officials, laying of mines, kidnapping, torture and rape and theft of arms. Apart from this, arms smugglers were also involved in this to spread disturbances in the country.
After the trial in the court, all these criminals were sentenced to death by the court. The ministry said that the appellate court and the Supreme Court had approved the death sentence awarded to all of them. According to media reports, the court had directed that all these should be given death sentences.
Among those sentenced to death was a Yemeni citizen. He worked with ISIS and had killed a security officer. Apart from this, two people living in Saudi have been found guilty of supporting ISIS. These men had killed two security officers and planned to target civilians and foreigners in the capital.
Apart from this, three other people living in Yemen were found guilty of killing two security officials, having links to terrorist organizations and smuggling weapons.
A Saudi citizen has been sentenced after being found guilty of kidnapping, torturing, killing a security officer and setting up a terrorist cell.
Two Saudis were found guilty of murdering their mother and of attempting to kill the father and brother. In addition, several Saudi and Syrian citizens have been sentenced for building terrorist cells, having links to ISIS and attacking police stations.