SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES NIGERIAN FOR MURDER

03 August 2009 :

Nigerian national Qorbi bin Musa Adam was beheaded by the sword in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for murdering a Saudi man after robbing him.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency that Adam beat Ibrahim al-Assiri, bound his hands and feet and stuck a tape over his mouth.
Assiri suffocated to death.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 02/08/2009)

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