SAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

15 January 2010 :

a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in Khamis Msheit in southern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. Mohammed Shahrani allegedly stabbed another man to death during an argument.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 14/01/2010)

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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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