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Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day in largest mass execution in decades
Saudi Arabia has executed 81 men, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom's biggest mass execution in decades.
The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.
- ABC News
Offences ranged from joining militant groups to holding “deviant beliefs”, the ministry said in a statement…