"Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a Syrian convicted of
trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills, the interior ministry
said, in the first execution in the kingdom this year.
Mohammed Darwish was arrested "as he was trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills into the kingdom," the ministry said in a statement carried by official news agency SPA.
He was beheaded in Al-Jawf province, in the kingdom's north.
Meanwhile, there are ongoing appeals advanced by Amnesty International to save Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, from execution for a crime she had allegedly committed at the age of 17, although her forged passport had said that she was 23 at the time."
Mohammed Darwish was arrested "as he was trafficking a large amount of narcotic pills into the kingdom," the ministry said in a statement carried by official news agency SPA.
He was beheaded in Al-Jawf province, in the kingdom's north.
Meanwhile, there are ongoing appeals advanced by Amnesty International to save Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, from execution for a crime she had allegedly committed at the age of 17, although her forged passport had said that she was 23 at the time."
