05 May 2008 :

Amnesty International received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organisation strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the UN moratorium on executions around the world. The horrific footage shows the condemned man's public execution. He kneels on a mat while spectators and guards watch. With one strike of the executioner's sword, his head rolls off and his body collapses in a heap. Amnesty International has been closely monitoring the prisoner's case, a Jordanian citizen convicted on drug trafficking related charges.