SAUDI ARABIA. YEMENI BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi authorities executed a Yemeni in Mecca after he was convicted of murdering a fellow countryman, the interior ministry said.
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Saudi authorities executed a Yemeni in Mecca after he was convicted of murdering a fellow countryman, the interior ministry said. Husni Tawhal had been accused of stabbing Saqr Sulaia to death, the ministry said, quoted by state news agency SPA. This brought to 61 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia this year.
— SOURCES
- (Source: Agence France-Presse, 21/8/2013)
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