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!
Weblinks und Literatur
- 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 A Sri Lankan woman is currently facing decapitation by sword on a witchcraft charge in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with Wahhabism, a strict form of Sunni Islam. The UN reports executions tripled in the kingdom in 2011. A Saudi man complained that in a shopping mall his 13-year-old daughter “suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, which happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman,” reports the daily Okaz. -After the local man denounced the Sri Lankan for casting a spell on his daughter, police in the port city of Jeddah found it sufficient cause to arrest the woman.- Witchcraft and sorcery imply only one measure in Saudi Arabia – beheading. And it works this way in practice: last year in the kingdom at least two people – a woman in her 60s and a Sudanese man – were beheaded on witchcraft charges.- In the absolute monarchy that Saudi Arabia is, a criminal code does not exist per se. Court sentences are based on Islamic Sharia law on the interpretation of judges.
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