Saudi Arabia has a banner year…in beheadings. The KSA sees a 10% increase from 2013

What a year for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Obama Administration’s BFF said goodbye to 2014 with its 87th beheading…break out the bubbly! Of course western main stream media remains completely silent about this, and the 86 beheadings that preceded it.

Maybe it has to do with the fact the the Kingdom has a major stake in just about every Western MSM media channel, thus ensuring that no light is ever focused on what is the most repressive and criminal regime in the world today.

Via Zerohedge:

It was a good year for those long ‘beheadings’. After a solid 79 head-removals in 2013, 2014 surged 10% higher with a recent record 87 beheadings overall (following a surge since August for crimes such as “drug smuggling, witchcraft, or sorcery”). The ‘State’ responsible for all these executions… not ISIS, but US ally, Saudi Arabia.

Via BNO News:

Wednesday’s beheading adds to a surge in executions that began in August, angering human rights organizations because many of those killed were convicted of non-lethal crimes. “Any execution is appalling, but executions for crimes such as drug smuggling or sorcery that result in no loss of life are particularly egregious,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, of Human Rights Watch, earlier this year.

Amnesty International also expressed its concern after four family members were all beheaded on the same day in August for merely possessing hashish. “The recent increase in executions in Saudi Arabia is a deeply disturbing deterioration. The authorities must act immediately to halt this cruel practice,” said Said Boumedouha, of Amnesty International.

At least 87 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia this year, following 79 executions last year. The kingdom applies the death penalty for a large number of crimes, including drug offenses, apostasy, sorcery and witchcraft. Both witchcraft and sorcery are not listed as crimes but have been used to prosecute people for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion, according to activists.

References:

http://www.bnowire.com/2014/12/31/saudi-arabia-beheads-87th-person-this-year/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-31/us-ally-saudi-arabia-beheads-87-2014-over-10-2013