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Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of murder, taking to 89 the number of death sentences carried out in the Gulf kingdom this year. Saad al-Zahrani was found guilty of shooting dead a fellow Saudi in a dispute. The sentence was carried out in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

(Sources: FOCUS News Agency, 01/05/2016)

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