Foreigners beheaded in Saudi Arabia
News Limited ^ | September 20, 2006
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AN Afghan and a Bangladeshi, who were respectively convicted in Saudi Arabia of drug trafficking and murder, were beheaded by the sword today, the interior ministry said.
The Afghani national, Obeid Allah bin Mohammad Alem, was caught smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.
He was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshi Abdulsalam Baswas was found guilty of beating to death and robbing an Egyptian expatriate, and was executed in the capital, Riyadh, the ministry said in a separate statement.
Their beheadings bring to at least 15 the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year. At least 83 people were executed in 2005, and 35 in 2004.
Executions generally are carried out in public in the oil-rich kingdom, which applies a strict form of Islamic law. The death penalty applies to murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking
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