Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Pakistani for drug trafficking, the Interior Ministry said, amid a surge in executions in the kingdom this year.
Pakistani citizen Benyameen Ali Ahmed was executed in Jeddah after being convicted of smuggling drugs in his stomach, the ministry said.
The Gulf state has carried out around 80 executions annually since 2011.
In comparison, Iran has executed more than 1,000 people since January last year, the UN special rapporteur on Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, said on Monday.
