11:29 AM ET 06/16/00
Six Beheaded in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) _ Four Pakistanis and two Bangladeshis
were beheaded Friday in Saudi Arabia for crimes including murder
and drug smuggling, an Interior Ministry statement said.
Three Pakistanis and the Bangladeshis were executed in the
central province of Riyadh for abducting and murdering a young boy,
the statement said.
It said the men had ``bad intentions'' when they abducted the
boy, implying rape. When the boy, whose age was not given, started
to scream, they stabbed him to death and buried him, said the
statement read over national television.
Their five accomplices, two Indians and three Bangladeshis, were
sentenced to jail terms and lashes, the statement said, but gave no
further details.
Also Friday, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin was
beheaded in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam, the statement said.
The executions bring to at least 59 the number of people
beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year. At least 99 people were
executed last year.
About two-thirds of those executed are foreigners. Saudi Arabia
is an oil-rich nation of 18 million, about 6 million of whom are
foreigners, mostly laborers from the Indian subcontinent.
Punishment in Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of
Islamic law and mandates death sentences for murder, rape, drug
trafficking and armed robbery. Executions are carried out with a
sword in a public square.
Human rights organizations have condemned the high rate of
executions, saying Islam prescribes using the punishments
sparingly.
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