Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 9, 2006 10:18:23 GMT -5
RIYADH: A Yemen national was beheaded with a sword in southern Saudi Arabia Wednesday after being convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry said.
Mohammed bin Yahia al-Razihi was executed in Jizane province near the Yemen border after being found guilty of smuggling hashish into Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement cited by an official news agency.
His beheading brings to six the number of executions in the kingdom this year. At least 83 people were executed in 2005, and 35 in 2004.
Executions are generally carried out in public in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of Islamic law. The death penalty is imposed for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Pakistan Times Wire Service
Mohammed bin Yahia al-Razihi was executed in Jizane province near the Yemen border after being found guilty of smuggling hashish into Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement cited by an official news agency.
His beheading brings to six the number of executions in the kingdom this year. At least 83 people were executed in 2005, and 35 in 2004.
Executions are generally carried out in public in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of Islamic law. The death penalty is imposed for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Pakistan Times Wire Service