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Saudi authorities beheaded a Syrian national
today after he was convicted of trafficking
drugs into the ultra-conservative Muslim
kingdom, the interior ministry announced.
Safwan Hindawi was arrested as he was
smuggling a “large amount of narcotic pills
into the kingdom,” said the ministry in a
statement carried by the official SPA news
agency.
His beheading in the northern Jawf region
raised to 24 the number of executions so far
this year in the Gulf state, according to an
AFP count based on official reports.
Last year, the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights denounced a “sharp increase in
the use of capital punishment” in Saudi
Arabia.
In 2013, there were 78 executions.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and
drug trafficking are all punishable by death
under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Islamic
sharia law.