SAUDI ARABIA. TWO MEN BEHEADED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING BOY

31 January 2008 :

Saudi Arabia beheaded two men convicted of sexually assaulting a young boy after kidnapping him. Muhammad Hosawi and Majid bin Jaber were executed by the sword near the holy city of Medina, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

(Sources: Times of India, 31/01/2008)

other news

IRAN - Jasem Nouri executed in Arak on August 31

01 September 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Soleiman Koushki executed in Karaj on August 31

01 September 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Akbar Abbaspour executed in Sanandaj on August 31

01 September 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Ali Yavari executed in Hamedan on August 31

01 September 2025 Read everything

IRAN - Esmail Delavari and Armin Reyhani executed in Shiraz on August 31

01 September 2025

950 executions since the beginning of 2025

Read everything

IRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on August 31

01 September 2025

160 executions in August

Read everything

Urgent actions

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

25 August 2025 Read everything

All urgent actions

Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

All documents

Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

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.