SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER

09 June 2008 :

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said it beheaded a man convicted of murdering a fellow citizen after a dispute. A ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency says Khalid Assouni was executed in Jiddah for stabbing Abdou al-Duweiri to death. The statement did not explain the nature of the dispute.

(Sources: International Herald Tribune, 08/06/2008)

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