The death penalty in Saudi Arabia, notably the cases of Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish and Abdullah al-Howaiti

Reference RC-B9-0392/2021

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The Left39

3702095%

S&D146

140006100%

Greens/EFA73

7100

The European Parliament adopted by 661 votes to 3, with 23 abstentions, a resolution on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, notably the cases of Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish and Abdullah al-Howaiti.The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, ECR and the Left groups.Saudi Arabia committed to abolishing the death penalty for all child offenders without exception by 2016 through new legislation. However, on 15 June 2021, Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish, a young Saudi man from the Shi’a minority, was executed for offences that rights groups say he may have committed as a minor. In addition, Abdullah al-Howaiti was tried in a mass trial of six individuals in an armed robbery case. Al-Howaiti was arrested in May 2017, when…