{"id":44953,"date":"2025-12-21T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=44953"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T12:56:48","slug":"beware-of-going-to-saudi-arabia-especially-if-you-are-carrying-any-kind-of-drug-or-medicine-that-can-be-construed-as-drug-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=44953","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Beware of going to Saudi Arabia especially if you are carrying any kind of drug or medicine that can be construed as drug dealing.<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44954\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-at-7.51.01-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-at-7.51.01-AM.png 565w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-21-at-7.51.01-AM-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Saudi Arabia has surpassed its record for the number of executions carried out annually for a second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">At least 347 people have now been put to death this year, up from a total of 345 in 2024, according to the UK-based campaign group Reprieve, which tracks executions in Saudi Arabia and has clients on death row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It said this was the &#8220;bloodiest year of executions in the kingdom since monitoring began&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The latest prisoners to be executed were two Pakistani nationals convicted of drug-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg5m49j14pyo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg5m49j14pyo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}