New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- A few days ago, Saudi Arabia executed a young woman and a young man from Bangladesh for committing an "indecent act" in a mosque in Mecca. The government did not think it was important to state anything beyond this as to the exact nature of their crime. What is the worst they could have done? Got intimate?

We eventually got to know that they had been held since 2023; he reportedly for cybercrime and she for adultery. But Saudi is clear they were killed for an obscene act. In reality, they were executed for being poor. They died because they were poor and came from a poor nation.

I cannot imagine any citizen of America or Europe or even China being executed by Saudi Arabia for sex, at least so easily, with no fuss, ...