Friday, May 08, 2015

Saudi Arabia beheads five foreigners, hangs their corpses from helicopter...

Saudi Arabia has reportedly beheaded five foreigners and hung their corpses from helicopter to set an example.

According to a report published in 'The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula' on Wednesday, the men were found guilty of murdering an Indian guard and stealing his money. After their beheading, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi officials hung the bodies from a helicopter so as to deter others from committing such crimes.

The five executed convicts have been identified as Yemen nationals Khaled Fetini and Ibrahim Nasser, Hassan Omar from Chad, Eritrean national Salem Idriss, and Sudanese man Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen.

Amnesty International, which has time and again raised concern about the "macabre spike" in the number of executions in 2015, had last year ranked Saudi Arabia on the top in the list of countries with highest executions. Full story

Related posts:
  1. Saudi Arabia executes second Indonesian maid in one week...
  2. Saudi Arabia executions now at 'unprecedented rate' after kingdom kills...
  3. Saudi beheads 7th Pakistani on drugs charges in one month...
  4. Saudi Arabia beheaded 59 people so far this year but hardly anyone is...
  5. Saudi Arabia carries out 500th execution of 2014 despite UN condemnations...
  6. Saudi Arabia executes 19 during one half of August in 'disturbing surge of...
  7. Confessions of a Saudi executioner...
  8. Saudi Arabia: 'sorcery' execution condemned as 'appalling'

No comments:

Post a Comment