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SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS MAN FOR KILLING MOM, BROTHER

30 December 2008 :

A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword in the western city of Taif after being convicted of killing his mother and brother, the interior ministry said. The mother and brother burned to death, and a sister was injured, after Mohammed al-Sehimi set his family’s home on fire in the wake of an argument, the ministry said.
 
(Sources: Afp, 29/12/2008)

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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.