{"id":213917,"date":"2020-04-27T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213917"},"modified":"2020-04-27T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T08:47:22","slug":"saudi-arabia-abolishes-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213917","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia abolishes death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Saudi Arabia has abolished the death sentence on individuals who committed crimes while still minors.<\/p>\n<p>The state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) disclosed this in a statement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest annual report earlier this month, Amnesty International rated Saudi Arabia as one of the world\u2019s biggest executioners after Iran and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decree means that any individuals who received a death sentence for crimes committed while he or she is a minor can no longer face execution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, the individual will receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a juvenile detention facility,\u201d HRC President Awwad Alawwad said in the statement on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important day for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code, and demonstrates the kingdom\u2019s commitment to following through on key reforms across all sectors of our country,\u201d Alawwad said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019 and these people included at least one person charged with a crime committed as a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s announcement came just two days after the kingdom abolished flogging as a form of punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Supreme Court made the announcement on Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has abolished the death sentence on individuals who committed crimes while still minors. The state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) disclosed this in a statement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, on Sunday. In its latest annual report earlier this month, Amnesty International rated Saudi Arabia as one of the world\u2019s biggest executioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[12070,11608,1476],"class_list":["post-213917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-death-sentence","tag-king-salman","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}