03 January 2019 :

A Pakistani national and two Egyptians have been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling drugs, the kingdom’s ministry of Interior said on 1 January 2019.
Nizar Ahmad Qall Ahmad, a Pakistani national was executed in the Makkah area of Jeddah for smuggling heroin, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
Two Egyptian nationals, Ataiwi Faraj Attia Suleiman and Subhi Odeh were also executed in Tabuk for smuggling a large quantity of banned amphetamine pills, hashish and narcotic opium by sea, the SPA reported.
The ministry said that all the accused were arrested after an investigation and later convicted by the court with the sentence endorsed by the appeal and supreme courts. A royal order was issued to execute the sentences.