Saudi Arabia beheaded 130 prisoners this year and ’dangled corpses from a helicopter as warning’

The latest killings were carried out just a day before British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in the country

SAUDI Arabia has beheaded 130 prisoners this year with corpses reportedly dangled from helicopters as a warning to would-be criminals.

A public execution saw six Yemeni men and a Saudi man die by sword on Tuesday - just a day before Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in the country.

The Yemeni men had been convicted of murder and robbery after a gang killed two men and a woman in a spate of robberies.

They were executed at Abha in the southwest of the Gulf kingdom.

The Saudi man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk after being convicted of smuggling pills, the interior ministry has said.

A report by The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula reportedly claims the men's corpses were dangled from a helicopter as a warning to others.

Lebanese human rights activists set up a mock gallows outside the Saudi embassy in Beirut. File picture

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz meets with Prime Minister Theresa May in Riyadh

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