Two Thai nationals convicted of drug trafficking were beheaded by sword in the eastern city of Dammam on Monday 7 May 2007.[1][2] The Interior Ministry said the men had smuggled a “large quantity of hashish” into the kingdom hidden inside a sportswear shipment.[1][2] The English service of the state SPA news agency named the men as Shalirm Yonha Koy and Smnoq Mintcho Keet, transliterations of their Thai names.[2] Their convictions had been upheld by the cassation court and the supreme judicial council.[2] The beheadings brought the number of executions announced in the kingdom that year to 55, a sharp rise after 37 in all of 2006 and 83 in 2005, according to press tallies of official statements.[1][2]
Two Thais beheaded in Dammam for hashish smuggling
Saudi Arabia beheaded two Thai nationals in Dammam on 7 May 2007 for smuggling a large quantity of hashish hidden in sportswear. The Interior Ministry announced the beheadings, the 55th executions of the year, through the state news agency.
🇸🇦 Dammam, Eastern Province · Saudi Arabia
- Deaths
- 2
- Cannabis
- Hashish
- Case stage
- Executed
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Deaths
- 2
- Agency type
- Court
- Cannabis
- Hashish
- Activity
- Smuggling, Trafficking
- Case stage
- Executed
Sources
- Death Penalty News (via mail-archive)mail-archive.com[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide
- Agence France-Presse and BangkokPost.com (via ASEAN NOW)aseannow.comSaudis Behead Two Thais
Open questions the AI reported
- The quantity of hashish was described only as a large quantity and was not stated.
- The reports give no dates for the arrests, trial or sentencing of the two men.
- The published names are transliterations from Arabic and their exact Thai spelling is unclear.
- Agence France-Presse tallied 37 executions in the kingdom in all of 2006 while the Bangkok Post account in the same thread puts the 2006 total at 38; the report uses the AFP tally.
- Both opened pages carry the same Interior Ministry account via the state news agency, so no independent agency statement was found.
- No photograph of the men or the execution with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.