{"id":13255,"date":"2025-07-11T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13255"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:01:50","slug":"saudi-foreign-executions-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13255","title":{"rendered":"Saudi foreign executions top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death Thursday, pushing this year&#8217;s number of foreigners executed past 100 \u2014\u00a0a spike in capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were executed on drug charges, the interior ministry said, bringing AFP&#8217;s tally of foreigners put to death since the beginning of the year to at least 101.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Khalil Qasim Muhammad Omar and Murad Yaqub Adam Siyo \u2014\u00a0both of Ethiopian nationality \u2014\u00a0were found guilty of smuggling hashish,&#8221; read the statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon referral to the competent court, a verdict was issued confirming the charges against them and sentencing them to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In total, 189 people have been executed in 2025, according to AFP&#8217;s count, including 88 Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the 100-foreigners execution mark was only surpassed in November in the Gulf kingdom.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia put two Ethiopians to death Thursday, pushing this year&#8217;s number of foreigners executed past 100 \u2014\u00a0a spike in capital punishment. The pair were executed on drug charges, the interior ministry said, bringing AFP&#8217;s tally of foreigners put to death since the beginning of the year to at least 101. &#8220;Khalil Qasim Muhammad Omar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}