On Thursday 17 November, the Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Stefano Sannino, summoned the Ambassador-designate of the State of Kuwait to the European Union, Nawaf N. Alenezi, in order to express the EU’s regret at the execution of seven people in Kuwait the previous day.
Five men and two women were executed for a series of murders, the first executions to happen since 2017.
The executions coincided with a visit to the country by the Vice-President of...