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14 June 2010 :

Saudi Arabian national Hanni al-Barqawi was executed by beheading in Mecca for the premeditated murder of Sami al-Sawat, the interior ministry announced in a statement on the official SPA news agency.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 13/06/2010)

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