SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER

17 April 2013 :

Saudi authorities executed a Pakistani man convicted of rape and murder, in the northwestern town of Tabuk, the interior ministry said.
Amjad Ali Kol was convicted of raping and strangling a woman, before stealing her money, the ministry said in a statement carried on official news agency SPA.
 
(Sources: AFP, 12/04/2013)

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