SAUDI ARABIA: TWO PAKISTANIS BEHEADED ON DRUG CHARGES
October 17, 2008: two Pakistani citizens convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia were beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh, the interior ministry said. Sadeq Shah Hadrat Shah and Dhia al-Haq Saheb al-Haq were found guilty of smuggling the heroin concealed "inside their bodies," it said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 17/10/2008)
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