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Saudi Arabia seeking a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote scheduled for Oct. 9 .
The kingdom will do so having set a new record high in annual executions in 2024 .
Between January and Oct. 4 , Riyadh executed 206 people per the state-run Saudi Press Agency , surpassing the high of 196 set in 2022 .
Human rights groups are highlighting the sobering statistic as nations consider who to vote into the U.N. body.
Basyouni: Mohammed bin Salman is inextricably linked to the spiking execution figures.
"He has a very controlling hand in the death sentences that are coming down Saudi Arabia and the execution numbers that are going up," she says.
The biggest mass execution in Saudi history -- in which 81 men were killed -- came on March 12, 2022 , just days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine .
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