Saudi executes expat for drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia executed on Monday an Egyptian man convicted of smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said. Ibrahim Mohammed Salman was caught trying to smuggle opium which was hidden in his car, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA. He was executed in

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Published 8 February 2016, 8:00 · Updated 22:02

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Saudi executes expat for drug trafficking

Saudi Arabia executed on Monday an Egyptian man convicted of smuggling drugs, the interior ministry said.

Ibrahim Mohammed Salman was caught trying to smuggle opium which was hidden in his car, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

He was executed in the northern city of Tabuk, the ministry said.

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

Saudi executes expat for drug trafficking

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