{"id":4869,"date":"2012-01-10T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2012-01-10T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:40:33","slug":"saudi-beheadings-continue-as-silent-us-readies-delivery-of-60b-in-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"Saudi beheadings continue as silent US readies delivery of 60b in weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia beheads man for murder<\/strong>
\n08 January, 2012 – Agence France Presse<\/p>\n

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man convicted of murder Sunday, the interior minister said in a statement, just two days after the UN expressed alarm at the scale of executions in the kingdom.<\/p>\n

Jahaz al-Baqmi, who was executed in the southern Saudi city of Taif, was convicted of stabbing a man to death, according to a ministry statement released by the official SPA news agency, bringing the number of executions carried out in 2012 to four.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced alarm at the almost threefold increase in executions in Saudi Arabia last year.<\/p>\n

“We are alarmed at the significant increase in the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia in 2011,” said spokesman Rupert Colville at a regular press briefing.<\/p>\n

“What is even more worrying is that court proceedings often reportedly fall far short of international fair trial standards, and the use of torture as a means to obtain confessions appears to be rampant,” he added.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia, which enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences, including rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

At least 76 death row inmates were executed in 2011, according to an AFP count, while Amnesty International has said the kingdom executed 79 people last year.<\/p>\n

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