BTW, no experience is necessary for this job, but prior experience in Syria and Iraq will be a plus.
This is the country that wants to head up the human rights council of the UN? They want to `head´ up the Human rights council so to be allowed to cut more heads legally. You know how this things work?...América supports them already so...
One would tend to think public beheading or flogging or stoning would stop crimes but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The numbers are on the rise!
This is the country that wants to head up the human rights council of the UN? They want to `head´ up the Human rights council so to be allowed to cut more heads legally. You know how this things work?...América supports them already so...
One would tend to think public beheading or flogging or stoning would stop crimes but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The numbers are on the rise!
Headhunting: Saudi Arabia hiring 8 new executioners after 2015 beheadings hit 85
May 19, 2015
Saudi Arabia, which executes more criminals than any nation except
China and Iran, wants to hire eight new executioners. A surge in
executions has been witnessed under new King Salman’s rule.
The job description
published online on Monday says no special training is required
from applicants. The executioners would be required to behead
condemned criminals in public as well as carry out amputations on
those convicted of lesser offenses, Reuters reported.
The executioners would be considered as ‘religious functionaries’, since they would be serving religious courts and be on the lower end of the civil service pay scale, the ad said.
The recruitment drive comes a day after Saudi Arabia executed the 85th person this year. The number reached in less than five months is compared to an estimated 90 executions over the whole 2014, according to Amnesty International.
Beheading of 5 foreigners in Saudi Arabia triggers outcry from human rights campaigners
Saudi Arabian authorities do not officially explain the surge in executions. Some observers suggest that since King Salman ascended the Saudi throne in January, additional judges have been appointed and managed to deal with a backlog of appeal cases by death-row inmates.
Criminals are usually executed in Saudi Arabia by public beheading, although occasionally death by stoning or firing squad is ordered. The crimes punishable by death range from violent crimes like murder and rape to blasphemy, adultery, drug crimes, witchcraft and sorcery.
About half of those executed are Saudi nationals. Most of the others come from countries like Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Burma, Chad, Eritrea the Philippines and Sudan, according to Human Rights Watch.
While beheadings are public, filming them is forbidden. In January, footage of a woman’s execution was leaked online, leading to the arrest of the person responsible.
In 2014, Saudi Arabia was ranked third on Amnesty International’s list of countries that carry out the most executions, surpassing Iraq and the United States. China and Iran were ranked 1st and 2nd respectively. Twenty-two countries are currently known to practice capital punishment.
The job description
published online on Monday says no special training is required
from applicants. The executioners would be required to behead
condemned criminals in public as well as carry out amputations on
those convicted of lesser offenses, Reuters reported.
The executioners would be considered as ‘religious functionaries’, since they would be serving religious courts and be on the lower end of the civil service pay scale, the ad said.
The recruitment drive comes a day after Saudi Arabia executed the 85th person this year. The number reached in less than five months is compared to an estimated 90 executions over the whole 2014, according to Amnesty International.
Beheading of 5 foreigners in Saudi Arabia triggers outcry from human rights campaigners
Saudi Arabian authorities do not officially explain the surge in executions. Some observers suggest that since King Salman ascended the Saudi throne in January, additional judges have been appointed and managed to deal with a backlog of appeal cases by death-row inmates.
Criminals are usually executed in Saudi Arabia by public beheading, although occasionally death by stoning or firing squad is ordered. The crimes punishable by death range from violent crimes like murder and rape to blasphemy, adultery, drug crimes, witchcraft and sorcery.
About half of those executed are Saudi nationals. Most of the others come from countries like Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, India, Indonesia, Burma, Chad, Eritrea the Philippines and Sudan, according to Human Rights Watch.
While beheadings are public, filming them is forbidden. In January, footage of a woman’s execution was leaked online, leading to the arrest of the person responsible.
In 2014, Saudi Arabia was ranked third on Amnesty International’s list of countries that carry out the most executions, surpassing Iraq and the United States. China and Iran were ranked 1st and 2nd respectively. Twenty-two countries are currently known to practice capital punishment.
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