SAUDI ARABIA. YEMENI, SAUDI EXECUTED FOR RAPE, KIDNAPPING AND THEFT
September 21, 2005: a Yemeni and a Saudi national were beheaded by the sword in Riyadh after being convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman and stealing her money and jewelry, the Saudi interior ministry said.
Bilal bin Ahmad bin Ali Mohammed from Yemen and Saudi Nasser bin Hassan bin Mohammed Hazazi had been convicted of "drinking alcohol, kidnapping a woman from a main street... raping her and returning her to where they had taken her from, after stealing her money and jewelry." (Sources: Agence France Presse, 21/09/2005)
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