Barbaric.
In Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait prison, 200 Ethiopian men are awaiting execution. Most were sentenced in mass trials without legal representation, according to Ethiopia’s Tigray Youth Affairs Bureau.
Sixty-five men face the most imminent risk: three of their group were taken out on 21 April, told they were going to court but were instead then executed.
Their convictions relate to drug offences. Many had brought khat – a legal, commonly chewed mild stimulant in Ethiopia – into the kingdom, where it is illegal.
The men had no chance to tell the court they didn’t know it was illegal, nor say anything else for that matter, because after arrest they were beaten until they signed documents they didn’t understand.
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