SAUDI ARABIA: MAN DECAPITATED FOR MURDER

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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URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

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