Authorities in Saudi Arabia have executed four members of the same extended family for drugs possession.
The two sets of brothers were killed on Monday in the south-eastern city of Najran after being convicted of receiving large quantities of hashish.
The case against them was reportedly based on confessions extracted under torture, Amnesty International said.
There had been a "disturbing" surge in the use of the death penalty in the kingdom, the human rights group added.
There have been 17 executions in the past two weeks, compared with 17 in the previous six months.
In 2013, the Saudi authorities executed at least 79 people, three of whom were under 18 at the time of the crimes for which they were condemned.
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