YEMENI BEHEADED IN SAUDI ARABIA FOR MURDER

27 March 2008 :

a Yemeni national was beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of murdering a Saudi man. Fuad Mohammad al-Akhram was found guilty of stabbing to death Majed Abdul Aziz al-Harbi after a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He was executed in the western region of Mecca.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 26/03/2008)

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