‘Don’t they have mercy?’: A mother on losing her son in a record year of Saudi executions
- Posted on January 26, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘Don’t they have mercy?’: A mother on losing her son in a record year of Saudi executions
Essam al-Shazly is the latest foreign national to die in a ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under Mohammed bin Salman. His mother has bravely spoken to the Guardian of his ‘unjust’ killing
