Saudi Arabia beheads foreigners
04/02/2008 17:13  - (SA)  

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Riyadh - Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian, an Iraqi and a Pakistani on Monday after they were convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said.

Rashid Akbar Hussein Eddin of India and Wassee-Allah Rafee-Allah Khan of Pakistan were found guilty of trafficking opiates, while Iraqi Ahmed al-Khazali was convicted of smuggling hashish, the ministry said in separate statements carried by the official SPA news agency.

Their executions bring to 23 the number announced by Saudi authorities so far this year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, where executions are usually carried out in public.

 

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