RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded two more of its citizens and a Pakistani, continuing the strictest punishment under new King Salman. Latif Khan Nurzada, a Pakistani, was executed in Makkah for trafficking heroin into the kingdom, the Saudi interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Saudi citizen Yassir bin Hussein al-Hamza was also executed over drug trafficking – he confessed that he smuggled amphetamine pills. Al-Hamza was beheaded in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern Jawf region, the ministry said. The third convict, Saudi citizen Omar bin Yahya bin Ibrahim al-Barkati was executed in the southwestern Asir region after being convicted of incest, the statement said. “He was executed as punishment for his crime and as a lesson to others,” it added. According to an AFP tally, their executions bring to 16 the number of Saudis and foreigners put to death this year.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 28th, 2015.
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