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SAUDI ARABIA. IRAQI BEHEADED FOR SMUGGLING HASHISH

15 May 2007 :

an Iraqi national was beheaded by the sword after being convicted of smuggling hashish into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Hakem Rajouj Mutair al-Ziyadi was caught red-handed attempting to smuggle an undisclosed amount of hashish using a motorbike, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He was executed in the northern town of Rafha, along the border with Iraq.
 
(Sources: Afp, 14/05/2007)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.