Saudi Arabia executed Yemeni national Hassan Mohammed Ali Hadi in Abha for smuggling cannabis into the kingdom, after the General Court's verdict was endorsed on appeal and by royal order. An executions log dates the beheading a day earlier, on 21 November.
Saudi Arabia executed Yemeni national Hassan Mohammed Ali Hadi in Abha for smuggling cannabis in November 2017.[1][2]
Saudi Arabia executed Yemeni national Hassan Mohammed Ali Hadi in Abha, in the Asir region, after convicting him of smuggling cannabis into the kingdom.[1]The Interior Ministry said the General Court convicted him, the Appeal and Supreme Courts endorsed the sentence, and a royal order was issued to carry it out.[1]
An execution log for 2017 records Hadi as beheaded in Saudi Arabia on 21 November for a drugs offence.[2]A second Saudi man was listed as beheaded for murder the same week, a separate non-cannabis case left out here.[2]
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Customs Today published the Interior Ministry statement on 22 November saying the execution happened "today", while the executions log dates it to 21 November; this report uses 22 November.
The quantity of cannabis smuggled was described only as "a quantity of cannabis".
Customs Today published the Interior Ministry statement on 22 November, one day after the execution log date used here.
The quantity of cannabis Hadi was accused of smuggling was not published.
Execution logs date the death to 21 November 2017, while another report dates the announcement to 22 November; the accounts describe the same named man.
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