Saudi Arabia beheads Hussein Muilu in Khobar for hashish smuggling
Saudi Arabia executed Hussein Bin Saleh Mailu by beheading in al-Khobar on 31 August 2008 after his conviction for smuggling hashish into the kingdom. The Interior Ministry announced the beheading through the state press agency; it was the 71st execution announced in the kingdom that year.
Saudi Arabia beheaded Hussein Bin Saleh Mailu in the eastern city of al-Khobar
on Sunday 31 August 2008 after he was convicted of smuggling hashish into the
kingdom.[1][2]The Interior Ministry announced the execution in a statement
carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.[1][2]
The beheading was the 71st execution announced in Saudi Arabia that year,
following a record 153 people put to death in 2007 against 37 beheaded in 2006.[1]Saudi Arabia applies a strict version of sharia, Islamic law, under which rape,
murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death
penalty, and executions are usually carried out in public.[1]
The ministry statement as reported named the man and the offence but gave no
quantity for the hashish and no account of his arrest, trial or sentencing.[1][2]
Case data
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