Saudi beheads Jari al-Dossari for hashish smuggling
Saudi Arabia beheaded Saudi citizen Jari al-Dossari in Al-Sulayyil on 7 June 2007 after he was arrested while receiving a large quantity of hashish. The execution was among the dozens of beheadings the kingdom carried out for drug trafficking that year.
Saudi authorities beheaded Saudi citizen Jari al-Dossari for smuggling hashish on Thursday 7 June 2007.[1][2]He was arrested while receiving a large quantity of hashish and was executed in Al-Sulayyil in Riyadh Province.[1]
Under Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islamic law, people convicted of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking can be executed.[1]The executions listing records the 7 June beheading of al-Dossari in Saudi Arabia for a drugs offence.[2]
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