The United Nations strongly regrets the executions in Saudi Arabia

In a report of IRNA, Reuters news agency wrote that Elizabeth Trussell called these executions “deeply regrettable” and added that the said convicts were citizens of Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and were convicted of crimes related to drugs and goods smuggling.

“Al-Khalij Al-Jadeed” news site recently pointed out in a report the increase in drug consumption in Saudi Arabia and the involvement of Saudi princes in importing drugs to this country and exporting these drugs to other countries and wrote: This problem has increased in the last decade. .

Between 2015 and 2019, Saudi Arabia accounted for more than 45% of the world’s discoveries of amphetamine-type drugs known as Captagon. The government of Saudi Arabia refuses to admit the danger of the situation and blames it on foreign parties; While members of the royal family and security forces have been involved in the distribution of drugs.

Saudi Arabia is the third largest consumer of drugs in the world and the largest consumer in the Middle East, and according to the current law in this country, drug use and trafficking are punishable by death, but this applies to ordinary citizens and immigrants abroad and not As for members of the royal family who are exempt from prosecution.