Britain's human rights organization Reprieve said death sentences have doubled in Saudi Arabia over the past five years, and have hit 37 people a year ago, for political motives.
The British Times newspaper on Wednesday quoted a report on Reprieve stating that Saudi Arabia carried out 423 executions between 2009 and 2014.
The organization added that the execution of death sentences in the Kingdom doubled between 2015 and 2020, when 800 people were executed.
She noted that 186 people were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2019 alone, including 37 Saudis, in a politically motivated mass execution.
She pointed out that two of the 37 were 16 and 17 years old when they were arrested on the background of participating in an anti-government demonstration and were convicted of "terrorism".
The Saudi Ministry of Interior said in April 2019 that it had taken the decision to execute these 37, after being convicted of terrorism-related charges, causing chaos, damaging peace and adopting extremist ideology.