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SAUDI ARABIA: YEMENI BEHEADED FOR GARROTTING COMPATRIOT
April 14, 2009: a Yemeni was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia for garrotting a compatriot with a length of wire in a dispute over money, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the SPA news agency.
Fikri Mohammed Hassan Saleh was executed in the southwestern town of Jazan for killing a fellow Yemeni, identified only as Najib.
Saleh was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when he committed the crimes. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 14/04/2009)
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