A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin
became Thursday the seventh person from his
country beheaded over the past month in Saudi
Arabia for drug trafficking.
The execution of Niyaz Mohammed Ghulam
Mohammed was carried out in Riyadh after he
was “tried and found guilty of attempting to
smuggle a large amount of heroin,” the official
Saudi Press Agency reported.
The latest case brings to 67 the number of
foreigners and Saudis executed for crimes this
year, despite international concerns.
The interior ministry says the government is
battling narcotics “because of their great harm to
individuals and society.”
In September, an independent expert working on
behalf of the United Nations called for an
immediate moratorium on the death penalty in
Saudi Arabia.
Rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are
also punishable by death under the kingdom’s
strict version of Islamic sharia law.
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