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SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI HEROIN SMUGGLER BEHEADED IN MECCA

20 January 2015 :

A convicted Pakistani heroin smuggler, Yassir Arafat Munir Ahmed, was executed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, the interior ministry said.
Ahmed is the 11th person, and the third Pakistani, to be executed in the kingdom this year.
 
(Sources: AFP, 19/01/2015)

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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.