SAUDI ARABIA: TWO SAUDIS BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Illustration by Amarjit Sidhu

16 February 2015 :

Two Saudis condemned to death for murder in separate cases were beheaded by the sword in Riyadh, taking to 31 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.
Interior ministry statements published by the official SPA news agency said that both Nawaf al-Shemmari and Saad al-Houzaimi had been found guilty of stabbing relatives.
 
(Sources: AFP, 15/02/2015)

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