III. Drug-Related Cases Rampant due process violations in the Saudi criminal justice system carried the gravest consequences for individuals facing drug charges, especially for cases in which Saudi authorities accuse individuals of crossing an international land border with drugs or attempting to bring drugs in through an international airport. Drug Executions in Saudi Arabia In contravention of international human rights standards, which only allow for capital utes individuals for nonviolent drug crimes. Since the beginning of 2014, Saudi authorities have executed 163 individuals for drug crimes, including 61 Pakistanis.47 Saudi authorities execute more Pakistani citizens annually than any other foreign nationality, most for heroin smuggling. Drug smuggling executions are tied to a 1987 decision by the Saudi Arabia brings drugs into the country.48 egarding the smuggler of drugs, his punishment is death, for the smuggling of drugs and bringing them into the country causes great corruption not limited to the smuggler himself as well as serious damage and great 49 The 2005 Law on Combatting Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances prescribes the death penalty for drug smuggling, but the law allows for mitigated sentences in limited circumstances.50 : Death for Drug Traff 47 51 Records of Saudi Press Agency Execution Announcements on file with Human Rights Watch. Council of Senior Scholars Decision 138, 1987, http://www.alifta.net/Fatawa/fatawaChapters.aspx?View=Page&PageID=3101&PageNo=1&BookID=2 (accessed August 30, 2017). 48 49 Ibid. Law on Combatting Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Um al-Qura, August 2005, 39/m, https://www.boe.gov.sa/ViewSystemDetails.aspx?lang=en&SystemID=31&VersionID=39 (accessed August 30, 2017). 50 51 Copy of Saudi landing card on file with Human Rights Watch. 25 MARCH 2018