Tigray's war refugees. Most of those facing execution are from Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, said Hayish Sibagadis, head of the regional government’s Youth Affairs Bureau. (EPA Images pic)NAIROBI: Around 520 Ethiopians sentenced to death for drug trafficking are currently awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia, the government of Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia, said Thursday.
Most of those facing execution come from the Tigray region, said Hayish Sibagadis, head of the Youth Affairs Bureau of the Tigray regional government, at a press conference.
Riyadh announced on Wednesday that it had executed two Ethiopians for drug trafficking, a week after executing five others for the same crime.
