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SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR RAPING MINORS

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

17 April 2007 :

a Saudi man convicted of raping minors was executed by beheading in Riyadh, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
Khaled bin Abdullah al-Arjani al-Ajmi was handed down the death penalty for raping minors and other crimes including theft and possession and use of drugs, the ministry said. It added that Ajmi disguised himself as a policeman before carrying out his crimes.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 17/04/2007)

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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.