Saudi executes two citizens for murder

Riyadh : Saudi Arabia executed two citizens convicted of murder on Wednesday. Dhafer and Hussein al-Mutliq were found guilty of killing fellow Saudis Azeb and Mahdi al-Moamer in a dispute between the two families, the interior ministry said. They were both executed in Najran, in

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Published 30 March 2016, 8:00 · Updated 18:21

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Riyadh : Saudi Arabia executed two citizens convicted of murder on Wednesday.

Dhafer and Hussein al-Mutliq were found guilty of killing fellow Saudis Azeb and Mahdi al-Moamer in a dispute between the two families, the interior ministry said.

They were both executed in Najran, in the south, a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency said.

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

Saudi executes two citizens for murder

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