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| Ten Pakistanis executed in Saudi Arabia in 2015 |
| 2015-05-27 |
| [DAWN] Ten Paks have been executed in 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... so far in 2015, as the kingdom's total number of executions rose to 88 on Tuesday. The interior ministry identified the latest to be put to death as Saudi nationals Awad al-Rowaili and Lafi al-Shammary, who were convicted of smuggling amphetamines. They were executed in the northern region of Jawf, the ministry said in statements carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Another Saudi, Mohammed al-Shihri, was separately put to death in the southwestern region of Asir for murder. The conservative Islamic kingdom executed 87 people in 2014, according to an AFP tally. Those beheaded this year include Siti Zainab, an Indonesian domestic worker convicted of murder despite concerns about her mental health, according to the Indonesian newspaper Kompas. Jakarta summoned Riyadh's ambassador over her case, a rare diplomatic incident linked to Saudi Arabia's executions, around half of which involve foreigners. Also among this year's dead are at least eight Yemenis, 10 Paks, Syrians, Jordanians, and individuals from Myanmar, the Philippines, India, Chad, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Sudan. Saudi Arabia ranked among the world's top five executioners in 2014, according to Amnesty. Under the kingdom's strict version of Islamic sharia law, drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death. Executions are carried out in public, mostly by chopping off the condemned person's head with a sword. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "Apostacy" is an extremely convenient reason. Many Muslims believe all human beings are born Muslim. That makes every non-Muslim some kind of apostate. Let the heads roll! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-27 14:38 |
| #3 Do you suppose we might be able to outsource US executions to the Soddies? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-27 14:07 |
| #2 Grateful, more like it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-05-27 12:40 |
| #1 I wonder if Indians feel envious? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-27 02:16 |