Saudi Arabia Beheads 8 Bangladeshis for Murder; 2011 Executions Rise to 58

[struggle4progress]

Source: Bloomberg

By Glen Carey - Oct 8, 2011 2:01 PM ET

Saudi Arabia beheaded eight Bangladeshi nationals in public yesterday for the murder of an Egyptian citizen in 2007, the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an Interior Ministry statement ...

Saudi Arabia, where religious police patrol shopping centers and cinemas are prohibited, enforces Islamic law. The kingdom usually beheads or sentences people to lashings for murder, rape and drug-smuggling. The Sunni Muslim-majority country and member of the Group of 20 nations has been criticized by international human rights groups.

Two other Saudi nationals were executed in the northern city of Tabuk yesterday, bringing the total number of executions to 10, London-based Amnesty International said in a statement on its website yesterday. At least 58 people have been executed in the country this year, including 20 foreign nationals, Amnesty said.

“Court proceedings in Saudi Arabia fall far short of international standards for fair trial and news of these recent multiple executions is deeply disturbing,” Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty’s Deputy Director for Middle East and North Africa, said in the statement ...

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[Itchinjim]

1. Texas has got some catching up to do.

Damn bleeding heart Perry.

[SoapBox]

2. Savages......

Wow...and they wonder why the "civilized world" looks at them as if they are primitive, wild animals.

Sick.

(ya, murders and rapists are sick but PUBLIC beheadings? perverse.)

[tblue]

5. We are not part of that "civilized world"

and we have no moral authority to condemn any country's treatment of prisoners. We torture and execute people who could well be proven innocent, and now we do summary executions. Doesn't matter if you and I are appalled that it happens. Our gov't allows it to happen and there is every reason to conclude now that we don't deserve to be called "civilized."

[Violet_Crumble]

7. Well said. The US with it's use of the DP isn't part of any civilised world n/t

[mysuzuki2]

3. I wonder if that hurts?

[Chan790]

4. Beheading?

Supposedly not, if the swordsman is good and cuts cleanly.

Otherwise I suspect it's excruciating if they don't sever the spine on the first swing.

In either case, the DP is barbaric.

[micraphone]

6. The Death Penalty

Taking us back to 2011BC one head (or injection) at a time.