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Newsbrief:
More
Drug
Executions
in
Iran,
Saudi
Arabia
9/17/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/354/executions.shtml
Both Iran and Saudi Arabia
again meted out the death penalty to accused drug traffickers this month.
According to the human rights group Amnesty International, Iran was a distant
second to China in executions last year, with 68, beating out the US's
65. Saudi Arabia also resorts frequently to the death penalty, with
at least 53 executions last year.
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International Anti-Drugs Day activity in Tehran, Iran, 2001
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In both countries, executions
for drug offenses make up a substantial portion of those killed.
According to figures compiled by the Australian Coalition Against the Death
Penalty, at least 21 people were executed for drug offenses in Saudi Arabia
last year and six in Iran, although human rights groups consistently say
these numbers are probably lower than the actual numbers because many death
sentences and executions are carried out in secrecy. (For example,
an Associated Press story on this week's executions in Saudi Arabia said
that "mostly drug smugglers" were executed last year.)
In Saudi Arabia, three security
guards were beheaded Sunday after being convicted of trafficking in hashish
and using government vehicles to move the drug, the Interior Ministry reported.
Khamis bin Mabrouk al-Sayeri, Nasser bin Mohammed al-Fahadi and Zidan al-Oqaili
al-Anzi were caught in the act as they loaded an undisclosed amount of
hash into vehicles belonging to the Saudi border guard. They were
executed in the northern border city of Arar, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Three more drug traffickers
were executed in Iran last week, according to a report in the Cyprus Mail.
Two brothers, Kamran and Keivan Razaghi and Amin Janati-Tabar, were sentenced
to death after being convicted of purchasing and selling almost 20,000
kilos of heroin and cocaine. They were hanged September 7 in prison
in Tehran.
To read the Amnesty International
report, "Death Sentences and Executions 2003" online, visit:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGACT500062004/
To view the Australian Coalition
Against the Death Penalty numbers online, visit:
http://www.angelfire.com/stars/dorina/worldexecutions2003.html
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Issue #354, 9/17/04
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Newsbrief: South Africa to Reject Marijuana Decriminalization |
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