According to Amnesty International's latest report, the rate of executions in Saudi Arabia has been increasing in recent years. According to the official press agency of the Saudi government, from January 2014 to June 2025, 1,816 people were sentenced to death. Foreign nationals are among those receiving the death penalty, especially in drug-related cases.

Within 10 years, 75 percent of the 597 executed for drug-related crimes were foreign nationals, according to Amnesty. In 2024, 345 people were executed in Saudi Arabia. From January to June 2025, only 180 people have been sentenced to death. In June alone, Saudi Arabia executed 46 people. It includes citizens of Nepal, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria. 

Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Sub-Regional Director, Christine Bekerle, said she was witnessing a very alarming trend. "Using the death penalty in a cruel and merciless manner is Saudi Arabia's disregard for human life," she said while releasing Amnesty's latest report.

According to 8 organizations including Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia has been among the countries that carry out the most executions in the world for years. They are criticizing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for not fulfilling his commitments. 

In 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman promised to reduce the use of the death penalty. He also reiterated his commitment to limit the death penalty in March 2022. The death penalty was not carried out during the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, the rate of executions has been steadily increasing.

Rameshwar Nepal, the South Asia director of Equidem Foundation, an international human rights organization, said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) prohibit the taking of a person's life.

It is a universal principle of human rights that life cannot be given if it cannot be taken. If a person engaged in criminal activity takes someone's life, it is considered a heinous crime. He should be punished. Those who commit crimes are to be reformed,' he said, 'Those who commit mistakes, crimes and misdemeanors are to be punished, but that punishment should not be the death penalty.' 

8 organizations including Human Rights Watch, according to Article 6(2) of the ICCPR, the provision of the death penalty for crimes that do not fall under the definition of 'the most serious crimes' should be abolished immediately. "In the background of the appalling execution of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, we urge the authorities there to immediately officially announce a ban on the death penalty and move forward in the direction of completely abolishing the death penalty for all crimes," the statement of 7 organizations including Human Rights Watch said, "Saudi Arabia should remove all legal provisions that violate international human rights law." The Ministry of Foreign Affairs kept the execution secret for three months. He was executed on June 19 at 7:59 am in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

According to Naresh Vikram Dhakal, the Nepali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the official news was given to the embassy only after the execution of the death sentence. After receiving the news, the embassy sent it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ranabhat was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for the murder of his colleague. He killed 50-year-old Bhagyanarayan Rai and 44-year-old Saroj Kumar Jha who were living in the same room on October 2, 2080.

In Saudi Arabia, even if the court imposes the death penalty, there is a provision that the perpetrator and the victim can reconcile by taking 'blood money'. But the government agencies did not take initiative to reconcile. Earlier, in the case of the murder of a Nepali by a Nepali in Saudi Arabia, there was a reconciliation between the perpetrators and the victims.

Parbat's Uttam Kunwar, who was convicted in the murder of colleague Vishnu Ghimire, was sentenced to death. But after the rapprochement between the perpetrator and the victim's family, Kunwar has returned to the country after being forgiven. Similarly, Umesh Yadav of Dhanusha, who was convicted of murdering a Pakistani citizen, also returned home after being forgiven by the family of the Pakistani citizen.

Nepalis are being hanged like every year in the last three years. In the second week of June 2080, Sant Bahadur Pun of Parbat was hanged. He was in Qurayyat prison in Saudi Arabia for 22 years. Pun was convicted of murdering Saudi national Oda bin Aida bin Hamod Al Sarari.