SAUDI ARABIA: SAUDI BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

29 April 2010 :

Saudi Arabian national Hussein al-Darwish was beheaded by the sword in Qatif for stabbing Osama Abu Abdullah to death during a fight, said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
It was the 11th reported execution in Saudi Arabia this year.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 28/04/2010)

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