The number of executions in Saudi Arabia is rising at an alarming rate. Recently, two Bangladeshis were executed. In the ...

Saudi Arabia executes man for crime committed when he was 14 - The kingdom carried out 347 executions last year, a new high ...

The Saudi Arabian government announced on October 14, 2026 that it had executed two Bangladeshi nationals convicted of ...

Foreign ministry tells parliamentary committee that consulate officials believed the two Bangladeshis faced prison terms of ...

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has set aside Sri Lankan worker Anojan Sivarasa’s death sentence over a social media post, but his possible release remains uncertain.

Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi nationals in Mecca on October 14 over an alleged “immoral act” inside a mosque, but ...

Update October 21, 2026: On October 14, 2026, Arun Hemachandra, Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister, announced that the Saudi Supreme Court had "set aside the judgment imposing the death penalty on ...

Saudi Arabia overturns death sentence of Sri Lankan man convicted over Facebook post - Supreme court order is seen as a major victory for Sri Lanka’s diplomatic efforts ...

Saudi court overturned Sri Lankan Tamil man Sivarasa Anojan’s death sentence over a Facebook comment about Prophet Muhammad.

A 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia after an appellate court convicted him of ...

The United States is an outlier in the West. We look at why the country clings to the death penalty. By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer I’m the editor of The World. For a few brief years, there was no death ...

Anojan Sivarasa, 27, was convicted in September for an allegedly derogatory comment he had made about Islam and Prophet Muhammad.