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    Saudi Arabia Capital Punishment News

    A Saudi prince accused of murdering his servant in Britain could face the death penalty in his homeland over allegations of homosexuality, a London court heard on Friday. Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, who is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, is accused of killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a top London hotel on February 15 after abusing him for weeks.

    The prince is alleged to have murdered the servant in a ferocious attack with a "sexual element". His lawyer John Kelsey-Fry has denied suggestions that the 2 men were in a gay relationship.

    Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema told England's Old Bailey central criminal court: "Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and carries the death penalty which is still applied in some cases."

    (source: gayapolis.com)

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    Saudi Government has decided to temporarily suspend the verdict of death penalty on Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek.

    Saudi Government has decided to temporarily suspend the verdict of death penalty on Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek. General Manager of the Foreign Employment Bureau Harishchandra Batagoda told SLBC that the Saudi government has taken this decision in response to the appeal made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Rizana will be able to enjoy a full pardon only if her Saudi plaintiff is willing to pardon her for the crime she alleged to commit. Meanwhile, western provincial governor Alavi Maulana says this decision is a massive victory for the Sri Lankan Muslim community. He added that the President’s attempt to save Rizana’s life has become fruitful.

    http://www.slbc.lk/index.php/compone...-rizana-nafeek

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    Saudi murderer gets beheading sentence

    A Saudi national was beheaded Monday in capital Riyadh after being convicted of murder, a media report said.

    Mohammed al-Matrafi was found guilty of killing his compatriot, Marzouq al-Hafi, according to state-run SPA news agency.

    Al-Matrafi shot his victim with a pistol after a dispute, Xinhua reported citing an interior ministry statement.

    According to Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic law, the death penalty is awarded in cases related to murder, rape, drug trafficking, armed robbery and adultery.

    http://www.kualalumpurnews.net/story...ading-sentence

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    144 prisoners on death row sit for exams in Saudi

    Thousands of prison inmates in Saudi Arabia sat for mid year examinations this week, including 144 who are sentenced to death, a newspaper reported on Monday.

    The nearly 4,000 students are part of a rehabilitation and educational programme launched by prison authorities in the Gulf Kingdom over the past few years, the paper said.

    “Among those who sat for the examinations are 144 prisoners who are sentenced to death,” the paper said.
    “Their hope for life appears to be pushing them to pursue their education although they will face their destiny head for the execution room one day.”

    http://www.emirates247.com/news/regi...01-24-1.346268

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    Saudi king pardons OFW on death row for drug raps

    An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was earlier sentenced to death by Saudi authorities on drug charges has been granted a royal pardon by Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud.

    In a report to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh did not identify the OFW "in deference to the request of his family for privacy."

    The mission said the Philippine national was freed on Sunday (April 17).

    The OFW's "repatriation to the Philippines has been arranged by the embassy. He is due to arrive in Manila shortly," the DFA said on Monday.

    Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary J. Eduardo Malaya, also the DFA spokesman, said the OFW was "sentenced to death by beheading in November 2009 by a tribunal of three judges for involvement in smuggling methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu, into Saudi Arabia."

    "In February 2008, he was apprehended by Saudi law enforcement agents after receiving a postal package with shabu hidden inside," said Malaya. Smuggling of illegal drugs is a crime punishable by death in the Middle East kingdom.

    Following the OFW's arrest, "an appeal was filed (by the embassy) on the original decision (of the tribunal). Based on the appeal prepared by the embassy with the assistance of counsel, two members of the tribunal reduced the penalty from death to 15 years imprisonment, 1,500 lashes and a karama (fine) of 100,000 Saudi riyals."

    "Subsequently, the embassy included the OFW's name in the list submitted to King Abdullah for the grant of clemency. The embassy's efforts were favorably acted upon and the OFW was ordered released after serving three years in detention," said Malaya.

    In a statement, Philippine Ambassador-designate Ezzedin Tago called the OFW's release a "testament to the hard work and tireless dedication of the men and women of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh in safeguarding the welfare of every Filipino in Saudi Arabia."

    The embassy earlier secured the release of two other OFWs on death row—Nonito Abono in November and Michael Roque in February.

    The Riyadh government has yet to announce the names of other OFWs pardoned by King Abdullah. Last February, the announcement of a royal pardon stated that it would only cover those serving jail terms for non-violent or petty crimes.

    The embassy sent in the names of nearly 600 Filipinos serving jail terms for consideration in the royal pardon. This represents about half of the 1,200 Filipinos serving jail terms in Saudi Arabia.

    The daily newspaper Saudi Gazette reported that over 10,000 of nearly 50,000 local and foreign inmates in various jails in the kingdom would "benefit from the pardon issued by King Abdullah on the occasion of his return from medical treatment abroad."

    http://globalnation.inquirer.net/new...-for-drug-raps

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    Do they give last meals and the such before the execution like in America?

    Guys there must be absolutely HORRIFIED that they're about to have their head chopped off! The ironic thing is famed forensic pathologis Michael Baden actually said beheading would be one of the most painless methods since it cuts off the brain stem so you can't feel anything!

    Of course I would think lethal injection would be the most painless as long as they really knock you out first!

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    Saudi Anti-Witchcraft Unit Breaks Another Spell

    Widespread belief in magic makes Saudis susceptible to fraud, local says

    When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women's lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia this week, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands, a capital offence in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.

    Agents of the country’s Anti-Witchcraft Unit were quickly dispatched and set about trying to break the spell that used the beast’s head.

    Saudi Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned The Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling, rife with tales of sorcery and magic. It set up the Anti-Witchcraft Unit in May 2009 and placed it under the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPV), Saudi Arabia's religious police.

    "In accordance with our Islamic tradition we believe that magic really exists," Abdullah Jaber, a political cartoonist at the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, told The Media Line. "The fact that an official body, subordinate to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has a unit to combat sorcery proves that the government recognizes this, like Muslims worldwide."

    The unit is charged with apprehending sorcerers and reversing the detrimental effects of their spells. On the CPV website, a hotline encourages citizens across the kingdom to report cases of sorcery to local officials for immediate treatment.

    In the case of the wolf's head, the Anti-Witchcraft Unit in Tabouk was able to break the spell. The Saudi daily Okaz reported on Monday that the unknown family that had fallen victim to the spell had been "liberated from the jaws of the wolf.”

    The Anti-Witchcraft Unit was created in order to educate the public about the danger of sorcerers and "combat manifestations of polytheism and reliance on other Gods," the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

    The belief in sorcery is so widespread in Saudi Arabia, that it is even used as a defense in criminal court cases. Last October, a judge accused of receiving bribes in a real-estate project told a court in Madinah that he had been bewitched and is undergoing treatment by Quranic incantations, known as ruqiyah, a common remedy for the evil eye.

    Jaber noted, however, that most sorcerers both inside and outside the kingdom were charlatans that take advantage of illiterate citizens who believed they were afflicted by the evil eye. He said that such beliefs were more prevalent among older, rural and often illiterate individuals than with younger, educated Saudis.

    "A while ago my arm was hurt and I couldn't draw," the cartoonist said. "Many older people told me that I must have been afflicted by the evil eye and should be treated by a Sheikh."

    "It's a matter of ignorance," Jaber added. "If people were more educated they wouldn't believe in this."

    The last time Saudi Arabia executed a convicted sorcerer was in late 2007, but this did not indicate the penalty has since been lifted, Cristoph Wilcke, a senior Middle East Researcher at Human Rights Watch and expert on Saudi Arabia, told The Media Line.

    Human Rights Watch had appealed King Abdullah in 2008 to halt the death sentence of Fawza Falih, a Saudi woman, on charges of witchcraft. The sentence was postponed, but Falih died in prison of ill health.

    Saudi Arabia lacks a penal code, making court decisions on whether a given act constitutes witchcraft completely dependant on the judge's discretion, Human Rights Watch said.

    "We hear time and again of foreigners, such as Ethiopians or Nigerians, accused of sorcery in Saudi Arabia because of traditional practices from their countries of origin," Wilcke said. "They are usually apprehended by the religious police, brought to court, and let off with a warning or lashes."

    In other cases, however, false accusations are made against foreign domestic workers in order to counter their charges of sexual harassment within a Saudi household.

    "They will often say that the [female] domestic worker bewitched the Saudi into falling in love with her," Wilcke noted.

    Belief in sorcery is not necessarily more widespread in Saudi Arabia than in other Gulf countries, Wilcke added. On Monday, the Emirati daily Al-Khaeej reported that Dubai police had arrested an Arab African national on charges of fraud and sorcery, after he charged 15,000 Dirham ($4,000) from a woman whose husband had left her, promising to bring him back using magic.

    But the strictly Orthodox brand of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, known as Wahhabism, did contribute to the country's zero-tolerance policy on magic, Wilcke noted.

    "Wahhabism believes in strict monotheism," Wilcke said. "Sorcery is a way of praying to someone other than God."

    http://www.themedialine.org/news/new...p?NewsID=32733

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    Inmate on deathrow dies; another before release
    Inmate at another prison was found dead a day before release

    A convicted killer in a Saudi jail was found dead a day before he was to be executed. An inmate in another prison died just a day before he was to be freed.

    Guards found the killer dead at the central prison in the eastern port of Dammam just a day before he was to be beheaded. In another prison in the southern town of Bisha, an inmate was found dead a day before he was to be released.

    “Forensic examination of the prisoner who was to be executed showed no criminal act was behind his death,” said Captain Nassir Abdullah Al Harbi, a spokesman for the Saudi prisons directorate.

    “He just felt some pain in the chest and was taken to hospital where he was reported dead,” he told the Saudi Sharq newspaper.

    http://www.emirates247.com/news/regi...09-18-1.419136

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    This entire witchcraft/sorcery insanity makes you realize the Saudis are INSANE!! They're living in the 12th century!

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    Warning against more Iraqis to be executed in Saudi Arabia - MP

    BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi MP warned that the Saudi Arabian authorities are expected to execute another three Iraqis, following the recent execution acts that ended in Thi Qar province citizen Mohammed Abdul Ameer.

    MP Kameela al-Mussawi, head of the Iraqi detainees in Saudi Arabia Fact-finding Committee, called, in as statement, copy received by Aswat al-Iraq, the Iraqi government to take utmost measures to sign prisoners exchange treaty, but should not include Saudi terrorists.

    Mussawai stressed signing death penalty against the Saudi terrorists immediately, according to the statement.

    She added that "we turned to the media after failing of the Iraqi government to implement the Committee's resolutions which were adopted at the parliament before few months".

    Mussawi called the media to bear responsibility to save the Iraqi detainees in Saudi prisons for the last years.

    She disclosed the names of the expected executions, pointing out that these verdicts are to press the Iraqi government to release Saudi terrorists

    http://ku.aswataliraq.info/Default1....&id=132450&l=1

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