Saudi Arabia: Executions in 2024 surpass 300 in record tally - The kingdom executed an unprecedented number of women this year, Saudi rights group revealed

We have no centralized prison where all the torture happens there. Instead, all of our prisons are torturous. We even have a place in Riyadh called Al-deerah square, or lovingly referred to by the locals as Chop Chop square, where we behead people publicly. And as i said in another comment, "terrorism" charges can be as mild as leaving the religion.

Many such cases of people being tortured or even killed in different prisons: Abdullah al Hamid, Loujain al Hathloul, Nimr al Nimr, Ali Mohammed Baqir al Nimr, Dawoud al Marhoon.

I'm kind of surprised that you still have any room for doubt in that regard.

FIFA: ”in 2034 we believe that number will go down to 299, they are really trying to improve there”.

Indeed! Maybe they can even pause the executions for a while during the festivities

So why are you still an ally to Saudi Arabia?

For two reasons: to try to soften the cost of living crisis and for strategic interests.

To be fair, Biden not only pledged to reassess the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, but also oversaw the beginnings of a reset, however soft. As inflation hit households and surging oil and gas prices threatened to make it sticky, his administration and other governments –notably Germany's three way coalition– faced a choice: whether to expend political capital –much of it, in the case of the German Greens– to appeal to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Azerbaijan and other oil and gas producers to increase supply in an attempt to alleviate inflationary pressure. Ultimately, this bet failed: people –like you– are rightfully angry over their governments' appeasement to authoritarian regimes, which didn't reciprocate and instead curtailed oil and gas supply, and the cost of living crisis arguably lost Democrats the election anyway — and looks set to deliver a similar blow to the three German coalition's members.

The other reason for the Biden administration's continued cooperation with Saudi Arabia is that the kingdom is a regional partner helping the US operate in the region. Although the US have been operating there in a way detrimental to life and livelihood, it needn't be so. Were the US to exert a better influence on the region, as I and likely you too wish, Saudi Arabia would be useful for both military power projection and diplomatic endeavours. For example, if the US had stopped supplying offensive weapons to Israel, an allied Saudi Arabia might have helped secure peace and prevent Israel's enemies from capitalizing on the moment, whether with air defenses or diplomatic efforts.

The American People demand cheap oil and goods

He knows where his palms are greased... oiled?