Firas Faisal al-Aghbar ,Firas Hussein Maktabi were executed for drug smuggling in the northwestern city of Tabuk

Firas Faisal al-Aghbar and Firas Hussein Maktabi were found guilty of taking delivery of a shipment of hallucinogenic drugs and were executed in the northwestern city of Tabuk, said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.Meanwhile, Saudi Abdul Rahman al-Zahrani was convicted of kidnapping and raping a female expatriate while his compatriot Abdul Rahman al-Fifi was found guilty of aiding and facilitating the attack.Both of them soldiers, they had stopped an expatriate who was in a car with his 20-year-old daughter and ordered him to step down, terrorising him with their military identification cards, SPA said.
Zahrani drove away with the victim's car and daughter, while Fifi held the father at knifepoint in another car, allowing his accomplice to head to a deserted area where he raped the woman. They were both executed in Riyadh.The executions bring to 49 the number announced by Saudi Arabia this year.

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Ghulam Nawaz and Tawa Ibrahim a Nigerian woman were executed

A Nigerian woman and a Pakistani man were executed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca today for drug trafficking, the Saudi interior ministry said.
Ghulam Nawaz was beheaded by the sword after being found guilty of drug smuggling in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. In a separate statement, the ministry said Tawa Ibrahim, the Nigerian, was beheaded for cocaine trafficking.
Their executions bring to 18 the number announced by Saudi authorities since the start of the year, after a record 153 people were put to death in 2007.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty in the oil-rich Gulf Arab country, where executions are usually carried out in public.

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