The families of dozens of Somalis sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia primarily for drug-related offences protested in Mogadishu on Wednesday.
They called on president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to engage with Saudi authorities to halt their planned executions and secure their release.
One of the protesters decried what they called lack of legal support for those detained in Saudi Arabia,
The protest followed the execution of a Somali man in Saudi Arabia on charges of trafficking drugs into the Arabian country.
About 45 Somali nationals were reported to be on death row in Saudi Arabia in 2024 for drug trafficking.
