MORE ON AL JUBEIR
Britain should ‘respect’ Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty and stop kicking up a fuss about it, according to the country’s foreign minister.
Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia executed 47 people in just one day, sparking widespread protests across the world.
Asked about the oil-rich country’s ‘terrible image problem’, Adel al-Jubeir told Channel 4 News: ‘Well on this issue we have a fundamental difference.
‘In your country, you do not execute people, we respect it.
‘In our country the death penalty is part of our laws and you have to respect this as it is the law, part of the law, in the United States and other countries.’
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/16/saudi-arabia-tells-britain-to-back-off-over-its-use-of-death-penalty-5627110/#ixzz3xmAt8oEq
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