Saudi Barbaria,, is just that BARBARIC!!!
(inbred) SAVAGES
SAVAGES!!!! SAVAGES!!! SAVAGES!!!!!
(watta frackin nightmare)
Saudi Arabia needs more executioners
In Saudi Arabia - the country that lives
under Sharia law - death penalty is carried out by beheading or
crucifixion. Saudi authorities have faced the shortage of executioners
and consider an opportunity to replace traditional methods of execution
with execution by shooting. This does not improve anything for those
residing in the poor south of the country. They can not pay the ransom
that replaces death penalty. Those people have to deal with much tougher
punishments than the Muslims of Mecca and Medina.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia practices
public executions for such crimes as rape, murder, apostasy, armed
robbery, witchcraft, drug trafficking and drug consumption. The main
department of the country that ensures the compliance with Islamic
Sharia laws, which is called the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice does not to consider it necessary for a
suspect to have a lawyer. The committee turns a blind eye to the fact
that many suspects testify under tortures. One of the people, who was
supposed to be crucified on Tuesday, March 12th, used a cell phone from a prison in Abha Province to cry for help.
Nasser Al-Qahtani told The Associated Press
that he was arrested for stealing a ring from a jewelry store in 2004.
The man said that he was tortured and was not provided with a lawyer.
"I did not kill anyone. I did not have a weapon while robbing the
store, but the police tortured, beat me and threatened to attack my
mother. They did all that to make me say that I had a gun, but I didn't
have it, I was 15 years old at that time," said Qahtani.
In 2009, a Sharia court sentenced him
and seven other people, allegedly members of the criminal group that was
robbing jewelry stores, to death.
Three men of this group were sentenced to death by shooting, according to Saudi newspaper Okaz.
This "new" form of Sharia punishment may soon displace beheading,
crucifixion, quartering, stoning or burying a person alive. The
authorities recognized that traditional executions were quite expensive
"events" as they are performed in public and require high security
costs. In addition, there is a serious shortage of skilled butchers. One
of them - the "leading" Saudi executioner Muhammad Saad Beshi, said in
an interview with the Saudi newspaper Arab News in 2003, that
he was decapitating more than ten people a day. He always keeps his
sword sharp and even lets his children clean it. "It surprises people
how quickly I can separate the head from the body," the newspaper quoted
Beshi.
Sharia law leaves a loophole for death
convicts, if they have money. The an-eye-for-an-eye principle of the
Islamic law allows to replace death penalty with Diyya - the ransom that
is paid by the criminal's family, if the convict's family agrees to
that. Diyya may amount to millions of dollars. For Nasser Al-Qahtani it
was definitely not an option. The man comes from the south of the
country, where people are seen as second class citizens and face
systematic discrimination, including the application of Sharia law.
Ali al-Ahmed, the director of the
Washington Institute for Gulf Affairs, wrote in a statement to the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights that one of the reasons for the death
penalty in the jewelry case was the territorial identity of the
convicts. Southern provinces are "largely marginalized by Saudi
monarchy, and its residents are treated as lower class citizens," he
wrote. Such a state of affairs exists because the south of Saudi Arabia
is the home to the followers of the "lost sect" that maintains close
contacts with its Yemeni "associates."
In January 2012, the United Nations
Organization for Human Rights expressed concerns about the increasing
number of executions in Saudi Arabia. In 2010, 26 people were executed
for various crimes. In 2011, there were 76 executions. There were at
least three women and eleven foreigners among those sentenced. This is
unofficial information. Human Rights Watch (HRW) gives the figure of 69
deaths, while Amnesty International - 79, including five women. The West
relentlessly criticizes Iran for death penalty used against women and
says nothing about the same practice in Saudi Arabia.
In 2011, the execution of a 54-year old
Indonesian woman, a maid, received an extensive media coverage. She
confessed to the murder of her employer. The woman stabbed him after the
man raped her. In January 2013, a young nurse from Sri Lanka was
publicly executed for the murder of a child of her employers committed
in 2007, when she was just 17. Human rights groups say that as many as
45 Indonesian women expect their death, mostly on false charges of theft
and sorcery, whereas victims of sexual violence are executed for
charges of adultery and fornication.
Saudi Arabia is one of the most cruel
and repressive countries in the world, but it enjoys the patronage of
the U.S. as an unconditional ally in the region. As long as all major
media resources are in the hands of the State Department, the world does
not know anything about how the Wahhabis abuse and torture local
people. This practice of double standards demonstrates the immorality of
military and political support of the West to such regimes as the Saudi
one.
Lyuba Lulko
Pravda.Ru
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