Saudi Arabia executes 5 Yemenis in Jizan, displays bodies in public
Saudi Arabia
executed five Yemenis on Tuesday and displayed their bodies in public
for killing a Saudi national and forming a gang that committed robberies
across several towns in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
The five were executed in the south western town of Jizan, bringing
the number of people executed in the kingdom this year to 46, according
to AFP stats. The five men in the above picture are seen hanging from a
rope tied to their waists on a horizontal bar between two cranes. It is
uncertain whether they were beheaded or shot.
The ministry said that Khaled, Adel ,Qasim Saraa , Saif Ali Al Sahari
and Khaled Showie Al Sahari had formed a gang which committed “several
crimes in various regions in the kingdom and robbed stores.”
The Ministry added that the five had killed Ahmad Haroubi, a Saudi, by beating him up and strangling him.
Under Saudi
Arabia’s strict version of Sharia law, rape, murder, apostasy, armed
robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death.
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The number of people executed in Saudi Arabia this year reached 46, according to news agency AFP.
Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said that Khaled, Adel and Qassem
Saraa, Saif Ali al-Sahari and Khaled Showie al-Sahari had formed a gang
which committed “several crimes in various regions in the kingdom and
robbed stores”.
The gang had killed Ahmed Haroubi, a Saudi, by beating him up and strangling him, the ministry said.
Murder, apostasy, armed robbery, rape as well as drug trafficking
are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of
sharia, or Islamic law.
The death penalty in the world. Map by euronews
