Aug. 22
SAUDI ARABIA----execution
Saudi Arabia beheads Yemeni citizen, marking 61st execution in 2013
Saudi authorities executed a Yemeni national in Mecca Wednesday after he was
convicted of murdering a fellow countryman, the interior ministry said.
Hosni Tawhal had been accused of stabbing Saghr 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,
according to an AFP count.
On Tuesday, 2 Saudis were beheaded after being convicted of murder and armed
robbery.
In May, 5 Yemenis were beheaded in Saudi Arabia, and their bodies were publicly
displayed near a university.
In 2012, the Gulf country executed 76 people, according to a tally based on
official figures. Human Rights Watch has put the number at 69.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable
by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.
(source: Al Akhbar)
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