Munawar Khan was arrested at King Khaled International airport in Riyadh as he was trying to “smuggle... an amount of heroin found in his body,” said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency. He was beheaded by the sword in the capital Riyadh, it said. The execution brings to 63 the number of people put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on official reports.
Amnesty International says 79 people were put to death last year.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 9th, 2012.
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