Saudi executes Filipino

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a Filipino man convicted of murder. Joselito Lyda San was found guilty of killing Sudanese national Saleh Imam Ibrahim with a hammer following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency. He was e

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Published 29 December 2015, 8:00 · Updated 18:23

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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed a Filipino man convicted of murder.

Joselito Lyda San was found guilty of killing Sudanese national Saleh Imam Ibrahim with a hammer following a dispute, the interior ministry said in a statement published by the official SPA news agency.

He was executed in Riyadh on Tuesday, it said.

Under the kingdom's strict Islamic legal code, murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.

Saudi executes Filipino

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