Saudi Arabia is going to double its beheading count again this year
Saudi Arabia has executed 82 people so far this year, putting it on course to double the number of executions carried out in 2015. The figure was uncovered by human rights organisation Reprieve who say Saudi's current pace of executions is record-breaking.
If Saudi doesn't slow down with its beheading spree, Reprieve estimates that they will kill 320 prisoners this year. If this happens it will continue a recent trend for the country to double the number of prisoners it kills each year. In 2015 it executed 158 and in 2014 it executed 88.
The figures from Reprieve come just a week after Defence Secretary Michael Fallon went to Saudi Arabia and met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, the man who runs the Saudi Interior Ministry, which is responsible for carrying out the beheadings. Here's the statement the Ministry of Defence put out after Fallon's meetings...
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