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Saudi Arabia executes three Pakistanis for heroin smuggling
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday executed three Pak nationals convicted of smuggling heroin, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom to 26 this year.
It named the three men as Mohammed Ashraf Shafi Mohammed, Mohammed Aref Mohammed Anayt and Mohammed Afdal Asghar Ali. All three were Pak citizens. SPA reported 153 people being executed in the ultra-conservative kingdom last year, a number confirmed by London-based rights group Among those executed was Shiite holy man Nimr al-Nimr, a high-profile figure behind a string of Shiite protests in 2011 demanding reform in the Sunni-ruled kingdom. Amnesty reported 158 death penalties in the country for 2015, the highest annual rate in the past two decades. Saudi Arabia has a strict legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-10 |
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