U.N. rights office "distressed" by Saudi executions

[struggle4progress]

Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:06pm EDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations on Tuesday said it was "deeply distressed" by Saudi Arabia's public execution of 10 men, including eight Bangladeshi migrants, and called on the kingdom to stop using the death penalty.

Saudi Arabia said it executed eight Bangladesh nationals on Friday for their part in an armed robbery in which an Egyptian security guard was killed, the state news agency reported.

The U.N. said two Saudi nationals were also executed on the same day for other crimes.

"For eight people to be executed for one murder is a lot of people and that raises questions itself. Ten were executed on the same day, eight of them migrant workers," Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, told Reuters ...

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE79A5DH20111011

[OKDem08]

1. It's doesn't seems a long way from

marginally indifferent.

Man this is one fucked up world.