10 October 2011 :
Saudi Arabia executed eight Bangladeshi nationals for their part in an armed robbery in which a security guard was killed, the state news agency reported.Mamoun Abdulmenan, Farouk Jamal, Suman Meah, Mohammed Suman, Shafiq al-Islam, Masoud Shamsulhaq, Abu Hussein Ahmed and Muteer al-Rahman were executed in the capital Riyadh.
The men were convicted of robbing a warehouse and killing the security guard, Hussein Saeed Mohammed Abdulkhaleq, an Egyptian national.
Three other men were sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths, the statement in Arabic said.
(Sources: Reuters, 08/10/2011)