SAUDI ARABIA. NIGERIAN BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

20 February 2007 :

a Nigerian man was executed by sword in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The man, identified as Omar, was convicted of bringing cocaine into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official news agency SPA.
 
(Sources: AFP, 18/02/2007)

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