Saudi beheaded in Al-Ahsa for repeat hashish smuggling
Saudi Arabia beheaded Malik bin Said al-Sayaari in the Al-Ahsa district of the Eastern Province on 1 January 2015 after a repeat conviction for hashish smuggling. He was the first person executed in 2015, a year after 87 beheadings.
Saudi Arabia beheaded Malik bin Said al-Sayaari in the Al-Hasa district of the Eastern Province after a repeat conviction for hashish smuggling.[1][2]The interior ministry said he was put to the sword on Thursday for promoting a large quantity of hashish for the second time.[1][2]
He was the first person executed in 2015 in the kingdom, which had beheaded 87 people the year before.[1][2]That tally was itself a sharp rise from the 78 executions recorded in 2013.[2]Drug trafficking is punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Islamic sharia law, alongside rape, murder, apostasy, homosexuality and armed robbery.[2]
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