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Saudi Arabia: Two Pakistanis beheaded for drug smuggling

November 7, 2014: Saudi Arabia beheaded two Pakistanis for drug smuggling between 5 and 6 November.

On 5 November, Mohammed Sadiq Hanif was executed in the eastern town of Khubar for his attempt to smuggle "a large amount" of heroin hidden in his stomach into the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said.

On 6 November, Amin Allah Zar Gul was beheaded in Riyadh after he was "found guilty of trying to smuggle heroin hidden in his gut," the official Saudi Press Agency said.

The beheadings raise to 65 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom in 2014. 

Sources: Agence France-Presse, November 6, 2014

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