Saudi beheads Syrian for drug trafficking

Middle East

Saudi beheads Syrian for drug trafficking

January 08, 2013 04:48 PM

Interior minister and Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz. AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE

RIYADH: Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills, the interior ministry said, in the first execution in the kingdom this year.

Mohammed Darwish was arrested "as he was trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills into the kingdom," the ministry said in a statement carried by official news agency SPA.

He was beheaded in Al-Jawf province, in the kingdom's north.

Last year, the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom beheaded 76 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under its strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.

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Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills, the interior ministry said, in the first execution in the kingdom this year.

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