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SAUDI ARABIA: NEPAL MAN EXECUTED AFTER CONVICTION FOR STABBING SAUDI TO DEATH

Illustration by Amarjit Sidhu

04 June 2023 :

Saudi Arabia on June 1st 2023 executed a Nepali national after his conviction for stabbing a Saudi to death.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported the execution of Santa Bahadur Pune, saying it took place in the kingdom's Al-Jawf region.
It did not say how Pune had been killed. However, Saudi Arabia typically carries out executions by beheadings.

 
(Source: AP, 01/06/2023)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.