17 October 2012 :

Saudi authorities beheaded two of its nationals and a Syrian after convicting them of drug trafficking, the Interior Ministry said. Massud al-Dossari, Daij al-Dossari and Syrian Ahmed Balji Oghlu were executed in the Hasa region of the Eastern Province, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. The trio were arrested when Oghlu was delivering drug capsules to the two Saudi men, it said, without specifying the type of the narcotic.