Pakistani beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities Thursday beheaded a Pakistani national after a court convicted him of attempting to smuggle heroin in his intestines into the kingdom. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the convict had admitted the offence during investigations and was executed in the capital Riyadh.
The beheading brings to 63 the number of death penalties carried out in Saudi Arabia this year. Last year, 79 people were executed for crimes such as murder, rape, armed robbery, and drug smuggling. Saudi Arabia, where a large community of foreigners work, enforces a strict version of the Islamic sharia law. According to the human rights group Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia carried out the third-highest number of executions world-wide in 2011, after China and Iran.
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