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SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

Beheading in Saudi Arabia

21 June 2006 :

a Saudi man condemned to death for murder was beheaded with a sword in the north of the country. Said bin Faleh al-Shimari was executed after being found guilty of shooting Ayed bin Ghoneim al-Shimari with a pistol following differences between them, said a statement by the Saudi interior ministry.
The statement did not say if the two men were related.
 
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 20/06/2006)

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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.