Saudi Arabia: Capital Punishment

(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the judicial processes that were used by the Government of Saudi Arabia to justify the use of the death penalty for the 37 people who were executed on 23 April 2019.


Answered by
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Mark Field
This question was answered on 1st May 2019

We are very concerned by the 37 executions in Saudi Arabia on 23 April 2019. The Foreign Secretary raised this matter directly with the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, HE Minister Al Jubeir, and asked for further information. The British Government oppose the death penalty in all circumstances and in every country, including in Saudi Arabia. We regularly raise human rights concerns, including the use of the death penalty, at the highest levels with the Saudi Arabian authorities.

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