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    Aliens in fanatical Saudi Arabia? Your head would be on the chopping block unless you can prove the aliens exist!

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    Saudi to behead joy-rider for 'drifting' killings

    A Saudi court sentenced a middle-aged joy-rider to death by beheading for accidentally killing two people while performing a car stunt near the capital Riyadh, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan reported on Tuesday.

    A pastime known as "drifting," in which drivers make their cars spin and skid at high speed, is popular among Saudi men with few options for entertainment in a conservative kingdom where cinemas do not exist and mixing between unrelated men and women is forbidden.

    Al Watan reported that the defendant, which it said identified himself as "Mutannish" - "he who ignores" in Arabic, struck and killed two men while performing the thrill-seeking stunt and fled the scene before being arrested.

    "The court of Onaiza handed down a sentence to kill the drifter 'mutannish' by beheading as punishment for his heinous deed and to deter others who tamper with the nation's security," the report stated.

    Al Watan did not say when the sentence would be carried out. A Justice Ministry spokesman could not be reached for comment.

    Saudi authorities have have treated deaths resulting from acts of "drifting" as criminally negligent homicides.

    In 2005, a Saudi naval officer found guilty of killing three minors in a stunt-driving accident was handed a death sentence that was subsequently reduced to 3,000 lashes and 20 years in prison, according to local media.

    Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict version of Sunni Islam, does not have a written penal code and judges issue verdicts according to their own interpretation of the Koran.

    Amnesty International has said that at least 82 people were executed in Saudi Arabia last year, many of them by public beheading.

    http://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi...gs-463515.html
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    Execution caught on video in Saudi

    A Saudi newspaper has carried a film showing the beheading of a man convicted of raping a teenaged boy before murdering him in the heart of the desert.

    The rare and shocking 51-second film showed the executioner bringing down his sword on the defendant’s head, which was severed in just a split of second.

    The executioner, a tall man wearing traditional Saudi dishdasha (gown) and ghutra (head cover), then wiped blood off his sword with a piece of cloth after the beheading before waling away from the rapist’s headless body.

    Sharq newspaper, which published the film, did not say how it was shot as filming of executions in the conservative Gulf kingdom is banned.

    Newspapers said the unnamed defendant had been convicted of abducting the Saudi boy to a desolate desert area and raping him. He then forced him to lie on the sand and crushed him with his four-wheel car.

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    Saudi prosecutors demand death sentence for Egyptian lawyer Gizawy

    Saudi prosecutors have requested the death penalty for an Egyptian lawyer charged with smuggling illicit drugs to the Kingdom in April.

    A Saudi court will issue its verdict in the case of Ahmed al-Gizawy Wednesday. Gizawy was arrested at Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah on his way to perform Umra, sources told the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat.

    The sources added that prosecutors attached a report to the indictment that included government laboratory tests of the confiscated narcotic drugs. The tests were declared positive.

    The arrest of Gizawy had strongly shaken Saudi-Egyptian relations. Egyptian activists angered by his detention had staged demonstrations outside the Saudi Embassy in Cairo, arguing that the charges were fabricated and the lawyer was actually arrested for criticizing the Saudi monarch. Saudi Arabia briefly withdrew its ambassador due to the crisis.

    President Mohamed Morsy of Egypt did not tackle Gizawy’s case during his visit to Saudi Arabia last Wednesday.

    http://www.egyptindependent.com/news...-lawyer-gizawy
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    Saudi king saves man from death sentence

    A Saudi man sentenced to death for murdering another Saudi during a fight was saved from the gallows after the victim’s father pardoned him in response to a plea by King Abdullah, a newspaper reported on Monday.

    Abdullah Nassir Al Qahtani has been in prison for nearly seven years waiting to be beheaded before he was told by his jailers the penalty has been annulled.

    “When I was sent to jail, I felt it was the end…I had waited to be beheaded any day and every day was like a year for me,” he told Okaz daily.

    “The Monarch’s mediation gave me a new life and I wept when I was told I was pardoned…I am very grateful for the family of the victim and I have taken a serious pledge to be obedient to God the Almighty and the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him)… I promise to be a good member of this society,” he told the paper as he prepared to leave prison in the northern town of Rafha.

    Under Islamic law, which is strictly enforced in Saudi Arabia, a killer can be saved from execution and walk free if pardoned by the victim’s relatives in return for diya (blood money).

    http://www.emirates247.com/crime/reg...07-30-1.469381
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    Saudi slams world reaction to maid's beheading

    Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticized world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency SPA reported.

    Riyadh "deplores the statements made... over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the kingdom," the government spokesman said.

    Rizana Nafeek was beheaded on Wednesday in a case that sparked widespread international condemnation, including from rights groups which said she was just 17 when she was charged with murdering the baby in 2005.

    Nafeek was found guilty of smothering the infant after an argument with the child's mother.
    The case soured diplomatic relations with Sri Lanka which on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia in protest.

    The government spokesman condemned what he called "wrong information on the case," and denied that the maid was a minor when she committed the crime.

    "As per her passport, she was 21 years old when she committed the crime," he said, adding that "the kingdom does not allow minors to be brought as workers."

    He said the authorities had tried hard to convince the baby's family to accept "blood money," but they rejected any amnesty and insisted that the maid be executed.

    Saudi Arabia "respects... all rules and laws and protects the rights of its people and residents, and completely rejects any intervention in its affairs and judicial verdicts, whatever the excuse," the spokesman said.

    The UN's human rights body on Friday expressed "deep dismay" at the beheading, and the European Union said it had asked the Saudi authorities to commute the death penalty.

    Human Rights Watch said Nafeek had retracted "a confession" that she said was made under duress. She said the baby accidentally choked to death while drinking from a bottle.

    Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.

    Last year the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom beheaded 76 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, while HRW put the number at 69.

    So far this year, three people have been executed.

    http://www.asiantribune.com/news/201...aids-beheading
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    Saudi Refuse to Return Body of Rizana Nafeek to Parents

    The parents of Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia, say they have forgiven those responsible for her death but want her body returned home.

    The Saudi authorities, however, have said no, according to Nafeek’s mother.

    Rafeena Nafeek told BBC reporter Azzam Ameen: “Even our request to get her body to Sri Lanka was refused.”

    She said of her daughter’s death: “There’s no point in blaming anyone – Rizana has gone. We only got to know [about] her execution from the media. They [the Saudi authorities] should have at least told us about it.”

    She urged other girls not to travel to Saudi Arabia for domestic work, no matter how impoverished they are, a warning echoed by the United Nations..

    Nafeek was sentenced to death in 2007 for the murder of a four-month-old baby who died in her care two years earlier. She denied murdering the child.

    She had travelled to Saudi Arabia on a false passport to work as a maid. The passport put her age at 23 although she was actually 17 when the baby died.

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    Because she was underage, the death sentence breached international child rights, said UN human rights experts. The death penalty cannot be imposed for crimes committed when the defendant is under 18.

    But authorities claimed Nafeek could not be pardoned because the baby’s parents insisted she be executed.

    Her mother rejected compensation from Riyadh city officials, saying she could not accept money from the country that killed her daughter. She was, however, presented with $7,800 (£4,900) from Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse.

    There has been wide criticism of how Nafeek was treated during her incarceration. She was not given access to lawyers and competent interpreters during her interrogation or trial. She was also beaten and made to sign a confession – which she later retracted.

    The UN said Saudi was particularly dangerous for female migrant workers: “In Saudi Arabia, women do not have equal access to the courts or an equal opportunity to obtain justice,” a spokesperson said.

    “The Secretary-General is concerned that this is a situation which is even more precarious for women migrant workers given their foreign status.”

    http://updatednews.ca/2013/01/24/sau...ek-to-parents/
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    Heidi, thanks for posting the video but doesn't it almost seem a little fake? Where are the dude's legs? Can you really behead someone with a sword so cleanly and quickly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheKindExecutioner View Post
    Heidi, thanks for posting the video but doesn't it almost seem a little fake? Where are the dude's legs? Can you really behead someone with a sword so cleanly and quickly?
    Yes you can the type of blade used is disguised to cut smoothly between the vertebra, also they give the condemned a tranquilizer and blood thinners to make sure the blood doesn't gush outward. As for the legs the man was in a kneeling position and wear long robes which mostly likely hid them.

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    Blood-money sets death-row man free

    A Filipino sentenced to death by beheading in Saudi Arabia for killing a man he said tried to sexually abuse him is to walk free after blood money was paid to the victim's family, officials said on Friday.

    Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza is expected to be released after more than 12 years in prison following the Saudi government's decision to pay 2.3 million riyals ($615 000) to the victim's family, Vice-President Jejomar Binay said.

    “I am glad to announce that our compatriot has been spared from the death penalty,” Binay said in a statement. The remaining $245 000 of the compensation sought by the victim's family was raised by Lanuza's relatives, he added.

    The Saudi embassy in Manila confirmed the deal, saying in a statement that Riyadh “has paid the balance of the blood money”.

    Under the Saudi legal system, acceptance of blood money leads to the signing of a waiver by the victim's family signifying forgiveness, Binay's office said.

    Lanuza, a 39-year-old draughtsman, went to work in Saudi Arabia in 1995. He was sentenced to death after he admitted stabbing his victim to death in 2000.

    However, Binay said another Filipino death row prisoner, Joselito Zapanta, is expected to be beheaded soon unless more than $800 000 in blood money is paid to the family of his Sudanese landlord, who he murdered in 2009.

    The construction worker won a four-month stay of execution in mid-November to give him more time to raise the amount but is still believed to be a long way short of raising the required funds.

    Labour rights monitor Gary Martinez, who runs Migrante International, a migrant workers' rights group, said about 125 Filipinos were on death row abroad - most of them in China on drug convictions.

    About nine million Filipinos work overseas. Their remittances are a mainstay of an economy that has struggled to create well-paying domestic jobs.

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/bloo...4#.UQu_EfIrnjg
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