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SAUDI ARABIA: MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER BEHEADED BY SWORD

Saudi police in Riyadh

09 April 2013 :

A Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword in the capital, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Saud bin Diri al-Anezi was found guilty of stabbing Yassef bin Eid al-Anezi to death in an argument, the statement said.
His execution takes to 30 the number of people put to death in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count.
 
(Sources: Afp, 06/04/2013)

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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.