Saudi Arabia Has Now Executed 17 People In Just 12 Days
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UN human rights office spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell called the capital punishment 'deeply regrettable' at a press briefing in Geneva, reported the The spate of executions were punishments for drugs offences, though the country implemented a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes in 2021.
'While Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was putting himself centre stage at the World Cup opening ceremony, seated next to Fifa supremo Gianni Infantino, taxi driver Hussein Abo al-Kheir was cowering in a cell, terrified that the executioner will take him next.
'Saudi Arabia executed more people than ever before in the first six months of this year, and has now begun executing drug offenders, in large numbers and in secret, as the world focuses on its neighbour.
It comes after Former Wales captain Laura McAllister said she was among female football fans who were 'told to take off their rainbow bucket hats' at the Qatari stadium ahead of Wales' match against USA on Monday.
More than 400,000 sunseekers are thought to have had their Greek holidays ruined by government delays in relaxing the global travel warning, along with Greece's decision to ban direct flights from the UK until July 15.
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Saudi Arabia has been accused of using the World Cup as a distraction after it beheaded 17 people over the last 12 days, a UN official said Tuesday, despite the country's leaders pledging not to use the death penalty.
Zeinab Abo al-Kheir wrote to the TV pundit after he said he wanted to 'listen to the evidence about human rights abuses' in the desert kingdom following the Saudi takeover of his former club, Newcastle United.
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I need to set up distancing measures at the property because they're taking it very seriously here.' Mr Johnson said on Wednesday night: ‘I'm in Pelion on essential business trying to Covid-proof my property in view of the upcoming letting season.
As a Greek news website branded Stanley Johnson's trip ‘unbelievable', MPs urged Boris Johnson to explain why his father appears to be bound by a ‘different set of rules' to those imposed on ordinary holidaymakers.
Speaking in the Commons, Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael said: ‘This is simply further evidence that when it comes to following the rules, it is one rule for the Conservatives and one rule for cost of taxi in athens greece everyone else.
Speaking from his mountain-view villa in Pelion - which he lets out athens airport to city taxi cost tourists - Mr Johnson said Greek officials were happy to allow him in and taxi Thessaloniki greece the ban only seemed to apply to ‘bulk arrivals' of British holidaymakers.
