Saudi Arabia executes two citizens for promoting hashish in Makkah
Rakan bin Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al-Dosari and Majed bin Ahmed bin Rada Al-Otaibi were executed in the Makkah region on 22 April 2025 after the interior ministry said they promoted hashish. Both were Saudi nationals.
🇸🇦 Makkah region, Saudi Arabia
- Deaths
- 2
Saudi Arabia executed two citizens in the Makkah region on 22 April 2025 for promoting hashish.[1] The interior ministry named them as Rakan bin Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al-Dosari and Majed bin
Ahmed bin Rada Al-Otaibi.[1] It said security forces had arrested them, courts found the charge
proved, and the discretionary death sentence became final after appeal and Supreme Court approval
before a royal order carried it out.[1]
Same day as other executions
Amnesty International noted that on 22 April the Saudi Press Agency also announced an execution of a
Pakistani national for heroin trafficking in the same batch of statements.[2] The ministry text
republished by CNN covers only the two Makkah hashish cases above.[1][2]
Sources
- السعودية.. وزارة الداخلية تعلن إعدام مواطنين في مكة وتكشف ما فعلاه. CNN Arabic, 22 April 2025. In Arabic. Archived copy.
- Saudi Arabia: Families fear imminent execution of loved ones amid surge in drug-related executions. Amnesty International, 24 April 2025. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- The ministry statement gives no quantities, prices or locations beyond the Makkah region.
- Amnesty International's April tally groups this execution with a heroin case announced the same day; this report covers only the two hashish promoters named in the ministry text.