Crimes committed by these individuals also include pledging allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Houthis, targeting residents in the Kingdom and traveling to regional conflict zones to join terrorist organizations.

To assure everyone that the men had been fairly convicted and sentenced, the Press Agency adds:

The aforementioned individuals were arrested, tried in Saudi courts, through trials overseen by a total of 13 judges over 3 separate stages of trial for each individual. The accused were provided with the right to an attorney and were guaranteed their full rights under Saudi law during the judicial process, which found them guilty of committing multiple heinous crimes that left a large number of civilians and law enforcement officers dead.

The watchdog group, European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, disagrees, saying in many of the 81 cases, not a single drop of blood was spilled. And among the cases it had been able to document,

[I]t had found no charges that merited the death penalty under the criteria that Saudi Arabia has made public. Some of the charges were related to participation in human rights demonstrations, the group said.

And contrary to the Saudi Government's claim, the group said:

[I]t had documented cases in which defendants had been denied access to a lawyer, tortured and held incommunicado.