IN MODERATE SAUDI ARABIA, YEMENIS ARE BEHEADED AND CORPSES DISPLAYED PUBLICLY
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Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry has reported the beheading and subsequent display of five Yemeni men charged with murder and robbery
Saudi Arabia has today beheaded five Yemenis and displayed their bodies in public.
The men were found to have murdered a Saudi national and formed a gang that committed robberies across several towns in the kingdom, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said.
The five were executed in the southwestern town of Jizan, bringing the number of people executed in the kingdom this year to 46, according to a tally kept by the Agence France Presse (AFP).
A witness in Jizan told AFP that the five men were displayed in public near a university.
A picture posted to Twitter shows the five men are hanging from a rope tied to their waists on a horizontal bar between two cranes.
The Al-Akbar website reports that Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said that Khaled, Adel and Qassem Saraa as well as Saif Ali al-Sahari and Khaled Showie al-Sahari had formed a gang which committed “several crimes in various regions in the kingdom and robbed stores.”
The five had also killed Ahmed Haroubi, a Saudi, by beating him up and strangling him, it said.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking, sorcery and witchcraft are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.
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