SAUDI ARABIA: EGYPTIAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER

09 June 2009 :

an Egyptian was beheaded by the sword in Riyadh for murdering a Saudi during a dispute, a Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency said.
Ahmed Mustapha was sentenced to death for killing Fahd al-Mutairi.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 08/06/2009)

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