Three border guards beheaded in Arar for hashish trafficking
Saudi Arabia beheaded three border guards in Arar on 12 September 2004 after convicting them of trafficking hashish in government vehicles; the Interior Ministry said the executions brought that year's total to 13.
Saudi Arabia beheaded three security guards in the northern border city of Arar after convicting them of traffickinghashish and misusing government vehicles.[1][2]The Interior Ministry named them as Khamis bin Mabrouk al-Sayeri, Nasser bin Mohammed al-Fahadi and Zidan al-Oqaili al-Anzi.[1][2]They had been caught loading an undisclosed amount of hashish into Saudi border-guard vehicles.[1][2]
The ministry’s statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said the Sunday executions brought the number of people executed in the kingdom that year to 13.[1][2]One account put the previous year’s total at 52 beheadings, mostly of drug smugglers.[2]Saudi law permits execution for drug trafficking, and beheadings are carried out in public by sword.[2]
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