Saudi Arabia
beheads men for stealing
Seven men were executed by beheading
Wednesday in Saudi Arabia for stealing, according to SPA, the official Saudi
New agency. The deaths came a day after the United Nations called for the
kingdom not to carry out the punishment, in part because the men had allegedly
not been given fair trials. The U.N. said the men were reportedly accused of
organizing a criminal group, armed robbery, raiding and breaking into jewelry stores
in 2005. The U.N. special rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Mendez, said
there are also grave concerns that the men were tortured during detention and
forced to sign confessions. “This is not the only in breach of Saudi Arabia's
international obligations under international law, which imposes an outright
prohibition on torture, it is also in breach of the government's international
obligation under the Convention against Torture that explicitly forbids the use
of all forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confessions or acquiring
information," he said. SPA issued a statement on behalf of the Ministry of
Interior that starts with a Quranic verse from the chapter "The Table Spread.
“The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Messenger, and strive
with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or
crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile
from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is
theirs in the Hereafter."
Reeco
Richardson, Crime Blog 7
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