3 More Saudi Executions
PlanetOut, July
14, 2000
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry on July 14 announced three more executions of men
for "committing the extreme obscenity of homosexuality and imitating women" as
well as sexually molesting boys. The latest executions were in Jizan, near the Yemeni
border. The convicted men were all Yemeni: Abdullah Jabli, Yehya Faraj and Faraj Hajuri.
Three other men were beheaded July 11 for similar crimes plus charges of same-gender
marriage.
Saudi Arabia leads the world in executions under its strict interpretation of Islamic
law, and the three latest are believed to bring the total for all charges for this year to
68 - 70. Amnesty International has complained that suspects there do not always get fair
trials.
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