SAUDI, STATELESS ARAB BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

01 December 2008 :

a Saudi Arabian man and a stateless Arab convicted of drug trafficking were beheaded by the sword in Riyadh.
Mohammad bin Karim al-Anzi, the Saudi, and Sadok al-Khalidi were found to have introduced large quantities of hallucinogenic pills on the Saudi market, the Interior Ministry said, quoted by the state news agency SPA.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 28/11/2008)

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