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SAUDI EXECUTES 10TH CONVICT THIS YEAR
February 23, 2014: A Saudi citizen convicted of murder was beheaded today, the interior ministry announced, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 10.
Salem al-Jahdali beat fellow tribesman Abdullah al-Jahdali to death following a dispute, the ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency.
The execution took place in the holy western city of Mecca.
The ultra-conservative kingdom beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count.
Last year, the UN High Commission for Human Rights denounced a "sharp increase in the use of capital punishment" since 2011 in Saudi Arabia. (Sources: Agence France-Presse, 23/02/2014)
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