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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/13/wo...ing/index.htmlSeven men were executed by beheading Wednesday in Saudi Arabia for stealing, according to SPA, the official Saudi New agency.
The deaths came a day after the United Nations called for the kingdom not to carry out the punishment, in part because the men had allegedly not been given fair trials. The U.N. said the men were reportedly accused of organizing a criminal group, armed robbery, raiding and breaking into jewelry stores in 2005.
The U.N. special rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Mendez, said there are also grave concerns that the men were tortured during detention and forced to sign confessions.
"This is not the only in breach of Saudi Arabia's international obligations under international law, which imposes an outright prohibition on torture, it is also in breach of the government's international obligation under the Convention against Torture that explicitly forbids the use of all forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confessions or acquiring information," he said.
SPA issued a statement on behalf of the Ministry of Interior that starts with a Quranic verse from the chapter "The Table Spread."
"The punishment of those who wage war against God and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter."
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did you notice the verse is talking about one crime with many punishments... think again about this verse. the verse just saying examples that NOT happened.
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Saudi Arabia in Totalitarian regime.
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Hmmm... what did you wish to highlight here Herod? The tyranny of the Al-Saud?
Or is it some sort of Islamophobic remark?
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I read somewhere that Saudi Arabia is running low on swordsmen and they might get rid of beheading lol.
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How crazy Islam is. They're still stuck in the middle-ages.
House of Saud is bad but it's still better than Al-Qaeda ruling there. Which is what you get without house of Saud. Sauds try to stop Al-Qaeda there.
That's true. They might replace it with shooting.
How did I re-question you?
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Well, there's a difference, I really don't like the Gulf Monarchies, like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain or the blasted Qatar.
The Saudis in particular are corrupt Wahhabists that train extremist militias, that then spread chaos in other Arab countries like Syria or Lebanon.
You're right somehow, they are very backwardish.
It's not the whole Islam really, I'm not islamophobe.
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