Iran Press/ Iran news: Saudi Arabia executed 81 men in the biggest mass execution in decades on Saturday, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, under the pretext of terrorism and other offenses, including holding 'deviant beliefs.'
Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Hassan Abutorabi-Fard pointed on Friday to the trip of UK's PM to Saudi Arabia and said: " If you are really concerned about human rights, why do you travel to the country immediately after this horrible crime to remove the Saudis' concerns by expressing your support?"
The Friday Prayers Leader called such measures double standards to the human rights, which was triggering the collapse of the global hegemony, noting that such acts were against international law and humanity.
He warned the Saudi regime against the executions and pointed out that such suppressive acts would fuel the anger of the Islamic nation against the ruling regime in the Hejaz.
The 2022 executions exceeded the total number of Saudi Arabia's punishments by death throughout last year.
The kingdom's last mass execution occurred in early January 2016, when Saudi authorities executed 47 people, including prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, who had vociferously called for democracy in the kingdom and advocated anti-regime protests. Nimr had been arrested in Qatif, Eastern Province, in 2012.
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