
A man jailed for drug offences in Saudi Arabia fears he may be “put to the sword” next, his sister has said, after the regime abandoned its supposed “moratorium” on executing people imprisoned for such crimes.
Hussain Abu al-Khair was arrested in 2014 while driving his taxi across the border from his native Jordan, after border officials allegedly found 200,000 pills of Captagon – a stimulant commonly used in the Middle East – in his vehicle.