Saudi Arabia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- absolute monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- Sharia applies; a fundamental law establishing the rights and responsibilities of the government was introduced in 1992
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law but some secular norms have been introduced
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- Advisory Council, appointed by the king for 4 years
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Council of Justice
RELIGIONS
100% Muslims
From the country
- JUNE 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted...
A Saudi Arabian man was beheaded after being convicted of beating to death a compatriot in a dispute over a plot of farm land
- JUNE 17, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot...
A Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh
- JUNE 6, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salama bin Mteir al-Atwi, a Saudi citizen convicted...
Salama bin Mteir al-Atwi, a Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot, was beheaded by sword in the north-western province of Tabuk
- JUNE 5, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabias leading executioner lifted the veil on...
Saudi Arabias leading executioner lifted the veil on a taboo in the kingdom, revealing the gruesome reality of the beheading of men and women in the name of God
- JUNE 1, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Iranian drug smugglers were sentenced to death...
Two Iranian drug smugglers were sentenced to death and four to life in jail in Saudi Arabia after they set fire to their boat loaded with nearly a tonne of hashish during a police chase at sea, Gulf News said
- MAY 18, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi defence lawyers appealed to King Fahd to free...
Saudi defence lawyers appealed to King Fahd to free five Britons and a Canadian convicted of planting a car bomb that killed a Briton in November 2000
- MAY 17, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Fuhaid bin Ali bin Saad al-Qarni, a Saudi citizen convicted...
Fuhaid bin Ali bin Saad al-Qarni, a Saudi citizen convicted of murdering a compatriot in a dispute, was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia's southern province of Assir
- MAY 11, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Fahd Bin-Hadi Bin-Muhammad, a Saudi national, was executed...
Fahd Bin-Hadi Bin-Muhammad, a Saudi national, was executed in Riyadh city after being convicted a fellow national
- MAY 9, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sultan Khan Osman Omrah, an Afghani convicted of drug...
Sultan Khan Osman Omrah, an Afghani convicted of drug trafficking, was publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia
- MAY 9, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder,...
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder, was publicly beheaded by sword in Saudi Arabia
- MAY 4, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Rahman bin Hanash al-Shihri was publicly beheaded...
Abdul Rahman bin Hanash al-Shihri was publicly beheaded in Riyadh for shooting dead a male relative in a dispute
- APRIL 24, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia voted against the resolution on the death...
Saudi Arabia voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva