Kuwait hangs seven people in first executions since 2017 | Death Penalty News

4 Kuwaitis, a Pakistani, a Syrian and an Ethiopian have been hanged, regardless of condemnation from Amnesty Worldwide.

Kuwait has put seven individuals to dying in a mass execution, the state-run KUNA information company confirmed, making it the primary execution since 2017 regardless of appeals from human rights organisations for clemency.

The inmates who have been hanged on Wednesday have been 4 Kuwaitis, a Pakistani, a Syrian and an Ethiopian. Two of the seven have been girls.

It was the primary execution since January 25, 2017, when seven individuals have been additionally hanged, together with one member of the royal Al-Sabah household, which has dominated the nation for 2 and a half centuries.

Outstanding rights organisation Amnesty Worldwide referred to as on Tuesday for the executions to be halted, saying they have been a “violation of the proper to life and the last word merciless, inhuman and degrading punishment” and that Kuwait ought to abolish the dying penalty “solely”.

“[Kuwaiti] authorities should instantly set up an official moratorium on executions,” Amnesty’s deputy regional director Amna Guellali stated in a press release.

The dying penalty is widespread within the Gulf area, significantly in Iran and Saudi Arabia. In March, Saudi Arabia executed 81 males in a single day, making it the biggest recognized mass execution carried out within the kingdom’s trendy historical past.

Kuwait launched the dying penalty within the mid-Nineteen Sixties and since then has executed dozens of individuals, primarily these convicted of homicide or drug trafficking.

In 2013, Kuwaiti authorities hanged three males convicted of homicide in April. Two months later, two Egyptians, convicted of homicide and abduction, have been executed.