{"id":10230,"date":"2026-11-05T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/saudi-arabia-executes-five-ethiopians-for-smuggling-hashish\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:01:03","slug":"saudi-arabia-executes-five-ethiopians-for-smuggling-hashish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/saudi-arabia-executes-five-ethiopians-for-smuggling-hashish\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia executes five Ethiopians for smuggling hashish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.88265746333\">\n<p>Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian nationals for drug-smuggling on Thursday, the interior ministry said, the third such announcement in recent months.\n<\/p>\n<p>The five had been convicted of \u201cparticipating in smuggling hashish into the kingdom\u201d, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency.\n<\/p>\n<p>They were put to death in Asir, a southern province on the Red Sea coast, bringing Saudi Arabia\u2019s figure for executions this year to 205.\n<\/p>\n<p>A record 356 were put to death last year.<\/p>\n<p>Five Ethiopians were executed in a single day in June and another five in one day in July. Thirty-two Ethiopians have been executed this year, the biggest foreign group. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Human Rights Watch warned in July that at least 79 Ethiopians face an imminent risk of execution on similar charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Ethiopians work in low-skilled jobs in Saudi Arabia. Most of them take the perilous \u201cEastern Route\u201d from the Horn of Africa to the oil-rich kingdom via Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#8ffbe7eaeaebe6fbe0fdcffffae1ece7e1e8a1ece0e2\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"0a7e626f6f6e637e65784a7a7f646962646d24696567\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi authorities executed five Ethiopian nationals for drug-smuggling on Thursday, the interior ministry said, the third such announcement in recent months. The five had been convicted of \u201cparticipating in smuggling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}