The number of executions in Saudi Arabia has increased alarmingly: so far this year there have been 78 executions, 70 of them in the past five months, compared to 29 in the whole of 1998. Juma’a Bin Salah El-Din, Nigerian national, Attallah Esmattallah, Afghan national, Abdellatif bin Mohammad al-Utaibi and Awadh bin Mohammed Qahtani were the latest to be put to death, on 10 September 1999.
