An appalling performance.
Britain continues, in effect, to turn a blind eye to Saudi's human rights abuses, its appalling record of judicial executions, and its repression and jailing of human rights campaigners in its Bahrain satrap.
In rejecting the appeal of a death row inmate in Kentucky, the court's majority dashed hopes of overturning its appalling 1989 ruling permitting executions of those who are 16 or 17 when they commit capital crimes.
They spoke about the terror of having to perform surgery during a bombing, the need to conceal their work if detained by security forces, for fear of execution, and the appalling risks that the sick and the injured face when seeking aid.
Highlighting the need for a UN inquiry into the violence, Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said the "willingness of Philippine police to deliberately target children for execution marks an appalling new level of depravity in this so-called drug war".
Appalling university purges, cultural revolutions, mass executions and blind censorship of the arts have been the common staple of this regime.
"The steep increase in executions is even more appalling given the pervasive flaws in Saudi Arabia's justice system which mean that it is entirely routine for people to be sentenced to death after grossly unfair trials," he said.
Of course, Iran's appalling human rights record, including the high rate of executions and arbitrary arrests of political activists, remains a big concern.
We believe it is an appalling miscarriage of justice for Indonesia to proceed with the execution of these men," he told Sky News.
"Instead of defending the country's appalling record, the Saudi Arabian authorities should urgently establish an official moratorium on executions and implement international fair trial standards in all criminal cases".
