Saudi government's efforts to save the eight Bangladeshi

The Saudi ambassador to Bangladesh said on Monday his government extended full support to Bangladesh government in pursuing to stop the execution of eight Bangladeshi workers in the country.

“But the efforts did not work,” Dr Abdullah.N. Al Bussairy said at a press briefing at his residence in the capital.

Despite Bangladesh's repeated pleas for clemency, Saudi Arabia on Friday executed the eight Bangladeshi workers for their involvement in a robbery and subsequent murder of an Egyptian security guard in Riyadh in 2007.

The Saudi government assisted Bangladesh government’s effort to pay blood money to the family of the Egyptian national, whose killing earned the eight Bangladeshis the capital punishment, but the victim’s family did not agree to the proposal, the Saudi ambassador told the press conference Monday.

A Saudi citizen was beheaded the same day for killing an Afghan national, the ambassador said, adding that the Saudi government moved for clemency to its citizen in exchange of blood money but also failed in convincing the victim’s family.

He also said Bangladesh government was instrumental to have its nationals cleared of the charge over four years when the trial was in progress.

The Bangladeshi migrant workers, who were beheaded in public in the Saudi capital, were Suman Mia from Kishoreganj, Mohammad Suman, Mamun Abdul Mannan, Masud Shamsul Haque and Shafiqul Islam from Tangail, Faruk Jamal from Comilla, Abul Hossain and Matiar Rahman from Faridpur.

Three other Bangladeshis -- Abdus Salam, Masud Rana, Alam -- were sentenced by the kingdom's highest court to imprisonment for different terms and flogging for their involvement in the incident, Bangladesh embassy officials in Riyadh told The Daily Star.

The 11 Bangladeshi workers killed Egyptian security guard Saeed Mohammed Abdulkhaleq while stealing electric cables from a warehouse in Riyadh on April 22, 2007, as documented in case statements.

Source: The Daily Star

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Saudi Arabia - beheading in the 21st century.

Saudi Arabia uses public beheading as the punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking, sodomy, armed robbery, apostasy and certain other offences.  2007 was the record year for executions with 153 men and three women executed. Forty five men and two women were beheaded in 2002, a further 52 men and 1 woman in 2003 and 35 men and a woman in 2004.  Executions rose in 2005 with 88 men and two women being beheaded and then reduced to 35 men and four women in 2006.  102 people were executed in Saudi Arabia during 2008 but it is thought that two of these were by shooting in Asir Province.  67 people were beheaded in 2009, including two women.  The execution rate fell markedly in 2010 with 26 men being beheaded.

The condemned of both sexes are typically given tranquillisers and then taken by police van to a public square or a car park after midday prayers. Their eyes are covered and they are blindfolded. The police clear the square of traffic and a sheet of plastic sheet about 16 feet square is laid out on the ground.

Dressed in either a white robe or their own clothes, barefoot, with shackled feet and hands cuffed behind their back, the prisoner is led by a police officer to the centre of the sheet where they are made to kneel facing Mecca. An Interior Ministry official reads out the prisoner's name and crime to the crowd.

Saudi Arabia uses a traditional Arab scimitar which is 1100-1200 mm long. The executioner is handed the sword by a policeman and raises the gleaming scimitar, often swinging it two or three times in the air to warm up his arm muscles, before approaching the prisoner from behind and jabbing him in the back with the tip of the blade, causing the person to raise their head. (see photo) Then with a single swing of the sword the prisoner is decapitated.

Normally it takes just one swing of the sword to sever the head, often sending it flying some two or three feet. Paramedics bring the head to a doctor, who uses a gloved hand to stop the fountain of blood spurting from the neck. The doctor sews the head back on, and the body is wrapped in the blue plastic sheet and taken away in an ambulance. Burial takes place in an unmarked grave in the prison cemetery.

Beheadings of women did not start until the early 1990’s, previously they were shot.  Forty seven women have been publicly beheaded up to the end of 2010.  

Most executions take place in the three major cities of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dahran. Saudi executioners take great pride in their work and the post tends to be handed down from one generation to the next. 

Source: Capital Punishment UK

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How much brutality is in Death Penalty at Saudi Arabia - The Real Video (18+ only!)

It's an 18+ Video!

For Under 18 & Heart Patient, It will be better if you do not watch!

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