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
- FEBRUARY 8, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: TEENAGE AWAITS 'DEATH OR LIFE' IN SAUDI
an Egyptian boy who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a girl hopes the victim’s family might pardon him. In 2004, Ahmed was arrested by police in the eastern town of Dammam for stabbing the three-year-old Egyptian girl, Walaa, 30 times.
FEBRUARY 7, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 90-YEAR-OLD KILLER SAVED FROM GALLOWS
a 90-year-old Saudi Arabian woman from the southern province of Asir who was sentenced to
- FEBRUARY 2, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAID SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EMPLOYER
a Saudi Arabian court sentenced an unnamed Asian housemaid to death for murdering her 80 year old employer with a hammer. She then packed all jewellery and other expensive items and fled the house in the central town of Taif.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI SAVED FROM GALLOWS FOR KING’S RECOVERY
in Saudi Arabia's southern Jazan province...
JANUARY 24, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 144 PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW SIT FOR EXAMS
thousands of prison inmates in Saudi Arabia sat for mid year examinations this week, including
JANUARY 10, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI MAN EXECUTED IN RIYADH
SPA news agency carried a Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry statement
- JANUARY 6, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabian national Naji bin Arif bin Sa'b al-Shamari, sentenced to death for killing fellow citizen Khalid bin Matrid bin Khalaf Al-Shamari over a family fued, was beheaded in A'rar in the country's north, the interior ministry said in a statement.
- JANUARY 1, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islamic law that prescribes the death sentence for murder...
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islamic law that prescribes the death sentence for murder, apostasy, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery.
- DECEMBER 22, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI BEHEADS BANGLADESHI CONVICTED OF MURDER
Saudi Arabia beheaded Bangladeshi national Kirun Abdelghani in Jeddah
DECEMBER 21, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF COMPATRIOT
A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded
- DECEMBER 7, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI MAN EXECUTED FOR STRANGLING WOMAN
Saudi Arabian Abdullah al-Ameri was executed by beheading for murdering a woman
- NOVEMBER 26, 2010Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI BEHEADS MAN FOR MURDERING FIVE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
Saudi Arabia executed Mosleh bin Salim bin Eid al-Atawi by the sword in the northwestern