SAUDI ARABIA: FOUR PRISONERS BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING, MURDER
Four prisoners were beheaded in Saudi Arabia between November 8 and 9.
Four prisoners were beheaded in Saudi Arabia between November 8 and 9.
On November 8, Saudi Arabia executed three Iranians convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said.
The three convicts had attempted to “smuggle a large amount of hashish by sea” into Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement published on the official SPA news agency.
They were executed in the eastern port city of Dammam, it said.
On November 9, Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of killing a policeman, the interior ministry announced, bringing to 146 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year. Ayed al-Jahdali was convicted of shooting dead a policeman who was trying to arrest him for drug trafficking, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. He was executed in the western Makkah region, it said.
On November 8, Saudi Arabia executed three Iranians convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said.
The three convicts had attempted to “smuggle a large amount of hashish by sea” into Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement published on the official SPA news agency.
They were executed in the eastern port city of Dammam, it said.
On November 9, Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of killing a policeman, the interior ministry announced, bringing to 146 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year. Ayed al-Jahdali was convicted of shooting dead a policeman who was trying to arrest him for drug trafficking, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. He was executed in the western Makkah region, it said.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: AFP, 8-9/11/2015)