Switzerland's Foreign Ministry has said that it summoned the Saudi charge d'affaires to reiterate its opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances after a mass execution in the kingdom.

 

The Swiss ministry, in a statement dated on Monday, said that "these mass executions risk reviving the confessional tensions which have already caused far too many victims in this region of the world."

 

It stressed the importance of doing everything to lower those tensions and "avoid provocations."