Saudi Arabia: Four Relatives Executed for Hashish Possession Amid ‘Disturbing’ Surge in Executions

by Gary Kopycinski on August 18, 2014

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NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. The Saudi Arabian authorities must halt all executions, Amnesty International said after four members of the same family were executed today as part of a “disturbing” recent surge in the use of the death penalty in the country.