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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

17 March 2009 :

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword for shooting dead a Bangladeshi farm worker in the Muslim holy city of Medina, the interior ministry said. Hamud bin Awadh al-Matiri was found guilty of killing Shahin Khan Himayat Eddine and stealing 25 sheep from the farm where the victim worked.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 16/03/2009)

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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.