Saudi Arabia 2000
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on Saudi Arabia in 2000
- AUGUST 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Isa Muhammad Adam, a Nigerian national, was beheaded...
Isa Muhammad Adam, a Nigerian national, was beheaded in Jiddah after he was convicted by a shari'ah court of smuggling heroin and cocaine
- AUGUST 27, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Dawi Bin-Abdallah Bin-Manahi al-Rushaydi was executed...
Dawi Bin-Abdallah Bin-Manahi al-Rushaydi was executed in Riyadh after being convicted of the abduction and rape of two girls
- AUGUST 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa,...
Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa, an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs, was beheaded in Riyadh
- AUGUST 13, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Khaled bin Ali al-Assiri was beheaded in the south-western...
Khaled bin Ali al-Assiri was beheaded in the south-western city of Asir for the murder of Abdullah bin Yahya al-Assiri, a fellow Saudi
- AUGUST 12, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Kanok Bonsod Sai and Ansawan Song, two Thai men who...
Kanok Bonsod Sai and Ansawan Song, two Thai men who were convicted of drug trafficking, were executed in Jiddah
- AUGUST 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Bin-Ahmad Bin-Musa al-Hamdan was executed...
Muhammad Bin-Ahmad Bin-Musa al-Hamdan was executed in Al-Zulfi in Riyad Province after he was convicted of the murder of Khalid Bin-Muhammad Bin-Jurays al-Juraysi
- AUGUST 6, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Naser bin Raja al-Inizi was beheaded in Dammam after...
Naser bin Raja al-Inizi was beheaded in Dammam after he was caught trying to smuggle an unspecified quantity of hashish into country
- AUGUST 6, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Shah Jihan Mayah of Bangladesh was convicted of murdering...
Shah Jihan Mayah of Bangladesh was convicted of murdering Abdullah bin Ali al-Ashwan and mutilating his body
- AUGUST 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan man convicted of smuggling heroin was beheaded...
An Afghan man convicted of smuggling heroin was beheaded near Mecca
- JULY 27, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Amin Mansour, a Yemeni, was found guilty of...
Mohammed Amin Mansour, a Yemeni, was found guilty of stabbing and shooting to death Mohammed bin Humaidi al-Qahtani
- JULY 26, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling was executed...
A Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling was executed in Dammam
- JULY 25, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed bin Saad al-Ahmadi was found guilty of stabbing...
Ahmed bin Saad al-Ahmadi was found guilty of stabbing his nephew, Osama bin Ali al-Ahmadi, hitting him on the head with a rock and throwing his body in a well, an Interior Ministry statement said
- JULY 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Yemeni men found guilty of engaging in homosexual...
Three Yemeni men found guilty of engaging in homosexual acts and sexually molesting young boys, were executed in Jizan
- JULY 21, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Hussein ibn Shuraidah Al-Ruwaili, a convicted murderer,...
Hussein ibn Shuraidah Al-Ruwaili, a convicted murderer, was spared from execution at the very last moment when his victim's brother granted a pardon
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man, I'jaz Ali Ibrahim, was executed in...
A Pakistani man, I'jaz Ali Ibrahim, was executed in Jiddah Governorate for smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ibrahim Bin-Abdallah Bin-Muhammad al-Uthman, Abd-al-Ilah...
Ibrahim Bin-Abdallah Bin-Muhammad al-Uthman, Abd-al-Ilah Bin-Fahd Bin-Muhammad al-Twayyim, and Mishnan Bin-Mutlaq Bin-Ghanim al-Dawsari, were executed in Riyad for murdering and robbing a Saudi national, Ghannam Bin-Ghunayman Bin-Atiq al-Shammari
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mukhtiara Khadem Hussein, a Pakistani woman, was executed...
Mukhtiara Khadem Hussein, a Pakistani woman, was executed after she was convicted of drug trafficking
- JULY 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi...
Atiya ibn Obaid Atiya, Rajeh ibn Ibrahim Isa and Rajhi ibn Hamad Ali were beheaded in Abha after they were convicted of sodomy, transvestitism, same-sex marriage and raping of young boys
- JULY 10, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani, was publicly beheaded...
Afzal Omar Shah, a Pakistani, was publicly beheaded in Riyadh after he was convicted of drug trafficking
- JULY 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed in Jizan for strangling to death...
A man was executed in Jizan for strangling to death his mother-in-law
- JULY 2, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Husam Bin-Kamal Bin-Fu'ad, a Syrian national, was executed...
Husam Bin-Kamal Bin-Fu'ad, a Syrian national, was executed in Jiddah in the Mecca region after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Saudi Arabia
- JUNE 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
A man was executed for stabbing a fellow citizen to death
- JUNE 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for...
A man was executed in the northern city of Tabuk for stabbing a fellow citizen to death after a dispute
- JUNE 19, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang,...
Warni Samiran Awdi, an Indonesian maid from Malang, East Jave, who killed her employer's wife in 1998 by beating her on the head with an iron pipe, was beheaded in al-Ihsa region
- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a Pakistani man was beheaded in Dammam after being found guilty of smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the country
- JUNE 16, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed...
Three Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis were executed Riyadh after having been found guilty of murder
- JUNE 11, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of...
Wahhab Abdallah Tuta'il, an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia, was beheaded
- JUNE 10, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed...
Sa'd Bin-Fatis Bin-Abdallah al-Zahrani was executed in Al-Mindak Governorate, Al-Bahah region
- JUNE 6, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national,...
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national, was beheaded in Rafha after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country
- JUNE 4, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca
Sa'id Bin-Salim Bin-Sa'id was executed in Mecca