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Five foreigners, convicted of murder and robbery, have been executed in Saudi Arabia as the rate of capital punishment surges in the kingdom.
Saudi Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Monday that the five foreign nationals, convicted of killing an Indian guard and stealing money from a safe, were beheaded in the Red Sea city of Jeddah earlier in the day.
The statement which was carried by the Saudi Press Agency, identified the executed as Khaled Fetini and Ibrahim Nasser from Yemen, Hassan Omar from Chad as well as Eritrean Salem Idriss and Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen from Sudan.
The beheadings put the number of executions carried out in the kingdom so far this year at 78, compared to a total of 87 in all of 2014, showing an dramatic rise in the government’s use of capital punishments.
Saudi Arabia beheads five foreigners over murder, robbery | The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in
Saudi Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Monday that the five foreign nationals, convicted of killing an Indian guard and stealing money from a safe, were beheaded in the Red Sea city of Jeddah earlier in the day.
The statement which was carried by the Saudi Press Agency, identified the executed as Khaled Fetini and Ibrahim Nasser from Yemen, Hassan Omar from Chad as well as Eritrean Salem Idriss and Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen from Sudan.
The beheadings put the number of executions carried out in the kingdom so far this year at 78, compared to a total of 87 in all of 2014, showing an dramatic rise in the government’s use of capital punishments.
Saudi Arabia beheads five foreigners over murder, robbery | The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in
