SAUDI EXECUTES NATIONAL FOR RAPE, DRUG, ALCOHOL CRIMES
June 27, 2007: the official Saudi Arabian Press website carried a Saudi Interior Ministry statement saying that the Shari'ah Court convicted Saudi national Marzuq Bin-Bakr Bin-Marzuq al-Mulid of the crimes of rape, drug possession, and drug and alcohol trafficking. Al-Mulid was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried out in Mecca. (Sources: BBC, 27/06/2007)
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