Saudi Arabia Sends 1300 Death Row Inmates to Syria to Fight for Jihad?

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A secret report claims the U.S benevolent ally, noted for its care of citizens, stability and human rights record, Saudi Arabia, sent 1300 death row inmates to fight in Syria to free the Syrian people from oppression by the dictator Assad and his evil regime.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/1...eath-row-inmates-to-fight-assad-in-syria.html

Saudi Kingdom negotiated with a total of 1239 inmates, offering them a full pardon and a monthly salary for their families, who were to remain in the Kingdom, in exchange for their training in order to send them to fight in Syria.

A top secret memo has revealed that the Saudi Kingdom sent death-row inmates, sentenced to execution by decapitation, to Syria to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences.

According to the memo, written by the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia dated on April 17, 2012, the Saudi Kingdom negotiated with a total of 1239 inmates, offering them a full pardon and a monthly salary for their families in exchange for their training in order to send them to fight in Syria.

The memo was signed by Abdullah bin Ali al-Rmezan, the "Director of follow up in Ministry of Interior", the Assyrian International News Agency reported.

According to the memo, there have been the nationals of Yemenis, Palestinians, Saudis, Sudanese, Syrians, Jordanians, Somalis, Afghanis, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, and Kuwaitis among the inmates.

There have been 23 Iraqi prisoners.

A former member of the Iraqi parliament, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the authenticity of the document and said most of the Iraqi prisoners in Saudi Arabia sent to Syria returned to Iraq and admitted that they had agreed to the deal offered by the Saudi Kingdom, and requested the Iraqi government to petition the Saudi government to release their families, who were being held hostage in Saudi Arabia
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Interesting. So do you think the leaked doc is fake?

Could it be they have/had loads on death row that have been there for years?

Also this happened, allegedly, in April 17, 2012... so may account for the low numbers in that year.

SAUDI ARABIA

TOTAL EXECUTED, 2007-2012 (423)
TOTAL SENTENCED TO DEATH, 2007-2012 (54)

Which is something of a nonsense because they apparently executed hundreds more than were sentenced.

United States
TOTAL SENTENCED TO DEATH, 2007-2012 (504)
TOTAL EXECUTED, 2007-2012 (220)

Syria
TOTAL SENTENCED TO DEATH, 2007-2012 (34)
TOTAL EXECUTED, 2007-2012 (33)
 
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Interesting. So do you think the leaked doc is fake?

Could it be they have/had loads on death row that have been there for years? Sounds unlikely but is it possible?

Also this happened, allegedly, in April 17, 2012... so may account for the low numbers in that year.

The prison population has risen to 47000
http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php?country=183
So if your figure were correct an estimate of say 4 or 5% of that would be on death row, which is high.

Saudi is not known for its appeal system and deals with death penalties fairly quickly so I would hazard that the figue is closure to the 140 mark.

I gave no idea about the document I am just addressing possible factual errors. If one thing is wrong how many more are?
 
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