Saudi Arabia on Thursday has beheaded a convicted
Pakistani drug smuggler, bringing to 29 the
number of executions in the first six weeks of the
year.
A offender Babir Hussein Mohammed Ishaq was found guilty
of transporting heroin which he had ingested, the
interior ministry said in a statement carried by
the official Saudi Press Agency
His case brings to 29 the number of Saudis and
foreigners executed in the kingdom this year,
according to an AFP tally.
The government says it is determined to combat
narcotics but it has faced international criticism
over its human rights record, including the use of
the death penalty.
Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and
armed robbery are all punishable by death under
the kingdom’s strict version of Islamic sharia law.
The Gulf nation executed 87 people last year, up
from 78 in 2013.
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