Kuwait on Wednesday put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the small, oil-rich nation despite facing international criticism over its plans.
The state-run KUNA news agency described those executed as all being convicted of premeditated murder and other charges in the sheikhdom. It identified those killed as three Kuwaiti men, one Kuwaiti woman, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman.
"They deprived the victims of their most sacred rights in this world, which is the right to life," Kuwait's public prosecution said in a statement. Executions are fairly rare in Kuwait, which has the world's sixth-largest oil reserves. The last before 2017 were carried out in 2013, when a Pakistani, a Saudi and a "Bidoon" -- a name used in the emirate for people without citizenship -- were hung.
"The EU calls for a halt to executions and for a complete de facto moratorium on carrying out death penalty, as a first step towards a formal and full abolition of the death penalty in Kuwait," the EU said in a statement, calling the death penalty "a cruel and inhumane punishment."
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