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Qatari, Jordanian among 5 executed in Saudi

A Qatari and a Jordanian were among five people executed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The Qatari , Mohammed Jarboui, was executed in the eastern region of Al-Ahsa after being convicted of murdering a Saudi , the interior ministry said. Sliman and Ahmed Messoudi were put to death i

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Published 1 March 2016, 8:00 · Updated 18:23

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Qatari, Jordanian among 5 executed in Saudi

A Qatari and a Jordanian were among five people executed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

The Qatari, Mohammed Jarboui, was executed in the eastern region of Al-Ahsa after being convicted of murdering a Saudi, the interior ministry said.

Sliman and Ahmed Messoudi were put to death in the northern Tabuk region for trafficking amphetamines, the ministry said in a separate statement.

The Jordanian, Abdallah Tayaha, was also convicted of amphetamine trafficking. He was put to death in the northwestern Jawf region, it said.

Amphetamines are stimulants most often targeted at students and labourers in the kingdom, interior ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki told reporters last week.

He added that war-ravaged Syria has become one of the biggest producers of the drug.

The kingdom has a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.

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