The number of executions in Saudi Arabia has increased...

The number of executions in Saudi Arabia has increased sharply over the past year, with 99 carried out in 1999, compared to 29 for the whole of 1998. Fifty-nine foreign nationals have been put to death including 12 Pakistanis, 10 Nigerians (3 of them women, for drug trafficking), 9 Afghans, 6 Indians, as well as nationals of Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Syria, Jordan, Ethiopia, Chad and Yemen.