Riyadh - Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded two Egyptians who
kidnapped a 9-year-old girl and tortured her for years and executed a national
convicted of murder, state news agency SPA reported.
Mohammed bin Nafe and Jamalat bin Nafe, apparently his sister,
"kidnapped a 9-year-old girl from the [Muslim] Prophet's Mosque in [the
holy city of] Medina, torturing and locking her up at their residence for three
years and six months," the interior ministry said in a statement carried
on SPA.
"Mohammed has repeatedly raped her throughout this period and the
pair were planning to smuggle her out of the country," it said.
"They had also neglected the health of their children and committed
violence against them, leading to the death of two of Mohammed's sons," it
added.
The two Egyptians were beheaded in Medina.
In a separate statement, the ministry announced the beheading of Ali bin
Mohammed al-Qahtani who shot dead a fellow Saudi, SPA reported. The man was
executed in the kingdom's southeastern region of Asir.
Tuesday's beheadings bring to 38 the number of people executed in Saudi
Arabia so far this year, according to a tally based on official reports.
Under the count, at least 76 people were beheaded in 2011, while rights
group Amnesty International put the number of executions last year at 79.
The death penalty in Saudi Arabia applies to a wide range of offences
including rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking, as well as
murder, as stipulated by Islamic sharia law.
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