Dozens of people from the Horn of Africa on death row in Saudi Arabia have been told that their executions could take place “any day”, inmates and their relatives told Middle East Eye.
The men are all from Ethiopia and Somalia and have been convicted of drug trafficking, which carries a death sentence in Saudi Arabia.
Held at the Najiran prison near the border with Yemen, inmates say they were notified several weeks ago that their sentences, typically beheadings, would be carried out soon.
“They have told us to say our goodbyes,” one of the convicted men, who preferred not to be named, told MEE.
“We were told that executions would begin shortly after Eid al-Adha, and now they have started.”
