Saudi-Arabien

August 5, 2014: Man beheaded in Saudi Arabia for torturing toddler son to death. A Saudi man was beheaded Tuesday for torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, AFP reported. Maqbul bin Madi al-Sharari hit his son Mohammed “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest of his body,” the Interior Ministry said. He also punched the toddler in the face and “burned him in different parts of his body, torturing him several times,” according to SPA state news agency.

Another Saudi man, Mohammed bin Bakr al-Alawi, was beheaded after being convicted of sorcery, a separate statement from the ministry said.

Alcohol is so illegal that you will not even find a version of your favorite Listerine mouth wash that contains it. You cannot buy alcohol in any form openly in KSA; although that does not mean that you can’t get it!

• http://livinginsaudiarabia.org/268/can-you-drink-alcohol-in-saudi-arabia/

Weblinks und Literatur

• Saudi Arabia beheads people for hash

• Prince executed, 2016

• Home-made wine in Saudi-Arabia: 350 lashes for 74 year old Briton

• Crew, Bob (2003) The Beheading and Other Stories. London: Metro.

• Shia Cleric Hanging 2015 Skeikh al-Nimr became a symbol of the 2011 insurrection when the Arab Spring came to Saudi Arabia. He led Shia Muslim street protests throughout the country, demanding constitutional changes, liberties and an end to anti-Shia discrimination in the kingdom.

Sheikh al-Nimr was arrested on July 8, 2012 in disputed circumstances, after police tracked him down in the eastern province of Qatif and shot him in the leg during a shootout.

• Todesstrafe in Saudi-Arabien für Hexerei und Zauberei (Russian Television, 23.04.2012

• YouTube
• Beheadings May 2015
• Beheadings August 2015

Video

• Displaying corpses of executed yemenis