Saudi Arabia beheaded Saudi national Dhaher bin Thamer al-Shimry on 14 September 2003 after his conviction for smuggling marijuana into the kingdom, according to a Ministry of Interior statement quoted from the Associated Press.[1] The execution took place in the eastern province of Hafr al-Baten.[1] He was the 41st person beheaded in the kingdom that year, most of them for drug trafficking.[1]
Saudi Arabia beheads Dhaher al-Shimry for smuggling marijuana
Saudi Arabia beheaded Dhaher bin Thamer al-Shimry in Hafr al-Baten on 14 September 2003 after his conviction for smuggling marijuana into the kingdom. He was the 41st person beheaded in the kingdom that year, most of them for drug trafficking.
🇸🇦 Hafr al-Baten, Eastern Province · Saudi Arabia
- Deaths
- 1
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Case stage
- Executed
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Deaths
- 1
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
- Activity
- Smuggling, Trafficking
- Case stage
- Executed
Sources
- TalkLefttalkleft.comArchived copySaudis Behead Marijuana Smuggler
Open questions the AI reported
- Only one source for this event could be opened; it quotes the Associated Press dispatch, whose original Newsday page is no longer reachable, and no second newsroom account was found.
- The quantity of marijuana smuggled was not stated in the opened source.
- No detail of the trial or court that convicted him was reported in the opened source.
- No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.