On Friday 7 October eight Bangladeshi nationals were executed in Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Amnesty International. The migrant workers were beheaded in public. They were sentenced to death for the alleged murder of an Egyptian man in April 2007. Since the end of the holy month of Ramadan executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an alarming rate. The recent beheadings bring the number of executions in this year to at least 58. Twenty of those executed in 2011 were foreign nationals, mostly migrant workers from poor and developing countries who often have no defence lawyer and are unable to follow court proceedings in Arabic.