The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday that it had carried out the sentences of capital punishment against individuals convicted of terrorism and capital crimes, reported the Saudi Press Agency.
Eighty-one individuals were convicted of various crimes, including murdering innocent men, women and children. They were also convicted of pledging allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Houthi militias in Yemen.
They were accused of targeting residents in the Kingdom and traveling to regional conflict zones to join terrorist organizations.
Convictions included targeting government personnel and vital economic sites, the killing of law enforcement officers and maiming their bodies, and planting land mines to target police vehicles. Other convictions included kidnapping, torture, rape, smuggling arms and bombs into the Kingdom.
The aforementioned individuals were arrested, tried in Saudi courts, through trials overseen by 13 judges over three separate stages of trial for each individual.
The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers dead.
The Kingdom will continue to take a strict and unwavering stance against terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the stability of the entire world.
