RIYADH-
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug smuggling, the interior ministry announced, bringing to 58 the number of executions in the conservative Muslim kingdom this year.
Baz Mohammed Ghul Mohammed was found guilty of attempting to smuggle a “large amount of heroin” by hiding it in his stomach, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He was executed in the Eastern Province city of Khobar, the ministry said.
The Gulf state last year beheaded 78 people.
A United Nations independent expert in September called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, has said Saudi trials “are by all accounts grossly unfair” and defendants often not allowed a lawyer.
He said confessions were obtained under torture.
This is a barbaric way of killing people in this day and age.No wonder the ISIS thugs are so keen and happy to behead innocent civilians and journalists who do not succumb to their dumb demands
People in Saudi Arabia do not live animals including human beings and animals are severaly punished so severaly punished i saw today
The prime minister is a fool who does not forbid such a dreadful sentence this country can never progress Muslim religion are a lousy religion because all relations are worthless animals live a hell it is better to die than are born in this religion
Beheading is an inhumane way of killing a human or an animal.World should stand against beheading in Saudi Arabia.
Its easy to say to behead anyone,but can you feel its pain?
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