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Saudi Arabia says it executed 81 convicts in a single day

Officials said those executed included convicted members of al Qaida and the Islamic State group.

SAUDI ARABIA HAS executed 81 people convicted of a variety of crimes, including killings and belonging to militant groups, in the largest mass execution conducted by the kingdom in recent memory.

The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced the executions, saying they included people “convicted of various crimes, including the murdering of innocent men, women and children”.

The kingdom also said they included members of al Qaida, the so-called Islamic State group and backers of Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

“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 Saudi Press Agency said.

“The kingdom will continue to take a strict and unwavering stance against terrorism and extremist ideologies that threaten the stability of the entire world.”

The kingdom’s last mass execution came in January 2016 with 47 people including a prominent opposition Shiite cleric who had rallied demonstrations.

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    Mute David A. Murray
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    Mar 12th 2022, 2:28 PM

    I’m sure all 81 human beings got a fair trial for rational charges and none of them were in fact innocent. Congratulations Saudi Arabia, that’s points towards worst regime and places you favorably in the early stages of 2022 for most reviled way to conduct yourselves.

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    Mute Michael Reilly
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    Mar 12th 2022, 2:47 PM

    @David A. Murray: Judge Roy Bean ” Son you will get a fair trial and then we will hang you”

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    Mute Tom Jennings
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:58 PM

    @Michael Reilly: no sanctions against them

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    Mute Nora McElhinney
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    Mar 13th 2022, 6:59 AM

    @David A. Murray: and our government voted to give them savages a seat on the committee for women’s rights at the UN table

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    Mute Paul O Connor
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:20 PM

    They buy Newcastle UTD in a sports washing exercise to improve their image and then boast about executing 81 people in one day. Not the sharpest are they.

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    Mute Simon Stokes
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    Mar 12th 2022, 7:09 PM

    @Paul O Connor: To be fair, owning Newcastle isn’t the best sportswash you could imagine…

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    Mute Dave Johnston
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:23 PM

    If we could clear out 81 convicts a day out of Mountjoy. Imagine the savings we’d make paying for their upkeep for the year. All paid for by the taxpayers.

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    Mute Donal Desmond
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    Mar 12th 2022, 5:18 PM

    @Dave Johnston: Still not a patch or dent on the Billions taken from the Irish economy to repay for the gangsterism of the banks facilated by politicians. Still Billions more to be repaid, all paid for by the taxpayers. When you consider the high profile criminal case of Sean Fitzpatrick who’s case collapsed by the shredding of documents by the state..Again he got the value of taxpayers money.

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    Mar 13th 2022, 12:04 PM

    @Dave Johnston: if we could ‘clear out’ cruel ignorance we would save even more.

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    Mute Seán Marlow
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    Mar 12th 2022, 2:58 PM

    When are these savages going to be sanctioned? Varadkar had a nice palsy meeting with them recently and posed under the butchers’ flag.

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    Mute Brian Ó Murchú
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:06 PM

    @Seán Marlow: Its a wonder they didn’t arrest Veradker for homosexuality . I presume the meeting was held outside Saudi Arabia.?

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    Mute Tom Jennings
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:00 PM

    @Seán Marlow
    Should be also sanctions against BoJo’s mates.
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/611365/sponsors/new?token=6RYUjNLZ7RlsdaEcYbof

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    Mute Tony Mc Grath
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:40 PM

    @Seán Marlow: remember who were Gadaffi’s great friends in the past, he wasn’t shy about executing prisoners. But a bit like the past support for Putin , it’s all a bit embarrassing now.

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    Mute Finbarr Cooper
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:05 PM

    Usually when thugs execute people it’s called gangland. Saudi Arabia isn’t a proper country it’s a family business

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    Mute Gerry Dornan
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:34 PM

    American and Britains best friend.

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    Mute alan scott
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:20 PM

    It’s really a barbaric country.

    They actually behxxd people and put their heads on spikes as a warning to others.

    Totally Middle Ages like, they don’t live in the 21st Century.

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    Mute E.J. Murray
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:01 PM

    @alan scott: — The only thing of theirs that lives in the 21stCentury is their money.

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    Mute Ciaran Leonard
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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:15 PM

    I wonder will the owners / directors of Man City be sanctioned?

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    Mute James Lough
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    Mar 13th 2022, 2:20 AM

    @Ciaran Leonard: why ?

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    Mute Christy Mc Carthy
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:54 PM

    Don’t go to a Saudi embassy

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    Mute vanc
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    Mar 12th 2022, 6:47 PM

    Look they execute ppl in the US and hold people in Guantanamo with no trial. I don’t see anyone looking for US sanctions from the “civilised” west for atrocities against humanity. Just because they are a monarchy rich oil state backward laws…. No different to the Us best buddies!!!!

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    Mute Jonathan O'Riordan
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    Mar 12th 2022, 6:29 PM

    Another country with a large embassy presence here In Dublin Why?

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    Mute Roger Bond
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    Mar 12th 2022, 7:34 PM

    @Jonathan O’Riordan: Because they are rich and have Powerful friends.

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    Mar 12th 2022, 2:17 PM

    It’s all good though because they allow women to now or something

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    Mute Lee King Buckett
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    Mar 12th 2022, 2:32 PM

    @Pól Ó’hAodha: You mean it’s all good because they supply the world with oil right?..

    Judging by the comments on the Russian tanker article below, it seems that petroleum and morality are mutually exclusive – even in Ireland.

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    Mute Brian Ó Murchú
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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:05 PM

    @Pól Ó’hAodha: What? “Now or something?”

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    Mute FiannaFáilness FineGaelness
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    Mar 12th 2022, 5:46 PM

    @Brian Ó Murchú: I think he meant to write “drive now, or something”.

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    Mar 12th 2022, 5:49 PM

    @Pól Ó’hAodha: it doesn’t even come close to the worst thing about Saudi Arabia, look what they’re doing to the people of Yemen. They along with the UAE put Russia in the halfpenny place. Over 377,000 people killed and 14 million on the brink of famine or dying from hunger. Disgusting. But they’re allies of the US/UK so they’re good.

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    Mar 12th 2022, 6:01 PM

    Saudi Arabia isn’t just the w_orst country in the world for LGBT rights, it’s one of the w_orst in this history of the world. Medieval Europe was far better. The western alliance with the regime, including the war in Yemen, shows us for the h__ypocrites we are.

    (Journal – the way I have to write this shows how utterly broken your “AI” toxic code is. Just use simple software with list of actual words that are actually toxic rather than “AI” that “learns” toxicity in normal words)

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    Mar 12th 2022, 4:32 PM

    I’m scared whoes culture will predominate in the future Muslim with lots of children or woke white with one or none

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    Mar 12th 2022, 7:08 PM

    @John O Connor: excuse me?

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    Mar 12th 2022, 8:26 PM

    @Criostóir McCormack: always asked hard questions of Catholic Ireland when they had platform

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    Mar 12th 2022, 3:46 PM

    Now that barbaric, RIP

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    Mute Stephen Foster
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    Mar 12th 2022, 11:21 PM

    @Tracy Costello: RIP?! Of course capital punishment is wrong, but some of the people they executed were in IS and killed innocent people by beheading them etc, along with other murderers.

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    Mar 12th 2022, 7:26 PM

    Leo’s mates

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    Mar 12th 2022, 6:35 PM

    I’m completely against the death penalty but I do make an exception for ISIS…

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    Mar 12th 2022, 8:11 PM

    @Paul Jude Redmond: and Putin

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    Mute Donal Desmond
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    Mar 13th 2022, 1:35 AM

    @Jonathan O’Riordan: How about Blair and Bush, just as guilty when they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.

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    Mar 13th 2022, 3:50 PM

    @Jonathan O’Riordan: Agreed

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    Mar 12th 2022, 10:27 PM

    Pity Ireland wouldn’t send a few over that way. No remorse for some vial individuals

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    Mar 13th 2022, 12:08 PM

    @Splat: speaking of vile individuals, that level of ignorance is breathtaking.

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    Mar 13th 2022, 8:24 AM

    Some of these execution methods are terribly cruel too, there’s one that forces the condemned person to support United for a full season

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    Mute Patrick Brompton
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    Mar 12th 2022, 6:55 PM

    And let us hope that MBS is next to get this Saudi justice for murder.

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    Mar 13th 2022, 6:31 AM

    Britain started this carry on. I’m glad I fought against the British..

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    Mar 13th 2022, 1:35 AM

    Slaughter merchants

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    Mar 13th 2022, 9:44 AM

    Thinking..if they are beheading them not a great day for the next guy stepping up.

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    Mute Keth Warsaw
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    Mar 12th 2022, 7:30 PM

    That’s Saudi’s culture. Last time I checked we were meant to respect all cultural values. Or is it just the pleasant ones that reflect western values. God help us if we discover intelligent life on another planet, and we poopoo them.

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