SAUDI ARABIA
January 14, 2001: Saudi Arabia executed two people this weekend
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Saudi Arabia executed a Saudi man for shooting dead a fellow national. The Interior Ministry said that the man was executed in the province of Najran. On January 13, Abdel-Rahim Shah Qulshawal, a Pakistani national was beheaded for heroin smuggling in the town of Al-Khobar. Saudi Arabia executed 7 people since the beginning of the year. Three of them were foreigners.
— SOURCES
- Sources: Reuters, 14/01/2001 ; SPA news agency web site, monitored by BBC, 13/01/2001
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