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SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG PEDDLING

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

09 October 2008 :

Ali Bin Abdullah Bin Musfir Al-Salouli Al-Bishi, a Saudi Arabian national, was beheaded in Bisha Governorate in Assir region, after being convicted of peddling drugs, said a statement released by the Interior Ministry.
The statement said the culprit was convicted by the court and the verdict was approved by the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Judicial Council.
 
(Sources: Saudi Gazette, 09/10/2008)

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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.