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SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI BEHEADED FOR KIDNAP, SHOOTING
May 28, 2009: a Saudi Arabian man convicted of kidnapping a child and shooting a police officer was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh, the interior ministry announced. A statement carried by the state news agency SPA said Batal bin Faisal al-Shaghar was condemned to death for kidnapping a child at gunpoint, launching an armed attack on a service station, resisting the security forces and shooting and wounding a police officer. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 28/05/2009)
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