SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPING BOY

26 June 2009 :

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said authorities beheaded a Saudi man convicted of kidnapping and raping a 5-year-old boy. Saud bin Awad was beheaded in the capital Riyadh.
 
(Sources: Canadian Press, 25/06/2009)

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KUWAIT: FIVE CONVICTED MURDERERS EXECUTED AFTER DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURTS

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The public prosecution announced that it had supervised on June 20, 2026 evening the execution of death sentences against five men convicted of premeditated murder and other serious crimes at Central Prison

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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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