SAUDI ARABIA: NIGERIAN EXECUTED IN JEDDA FOR SMUGGLING COCAINE

19 July 2007 :

the Saudi Arabian news agency SPA website carried a Saudi Interior Ministry statement saying that the Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence against Saghiru Kayudi Ijbaji, a Nigerian national who was convicted of the crime of smuggling cocaine into Saudi Arabia in his entrails. The sentence was carried out in Jedda.
 
(Sources: BBC, 17/07/2007)

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