Saudi Arabia executed 81 men including seven Yemenis and one Syrian on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said, in the kingdom's biggest mass execution in decades.
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The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 in 2020.
Offenses ranged from joining militant groups to holding "deviant beliefs", the ministry said in a statement.
"These individuals, totaling 81, were convicted of various crimes including murdering innocent men, women, and children," the statement read. "Crimes committed by these individuals also include pledging allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, al-Qaida, and the Houthis," it added.
The ministry did not say how the executions were carried out.
