{"id":963,"date":"2013-08-20T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:59:46","slug":"contentsaudi-beheads-two-nationals-murder-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Beheads Two Nationals for Murder, Armed Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded by the sword two nationals convicted of murdering a Syrian and of armed robbery, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim al-Qanbar and Ahmed al-Musalam were found guilty of attacking a labor camp and opening fire at residents, killing Mohammed al-Shuja and wounding another person, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Qanbar was also charged with several acts of armed robbery, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The beheadings in the Qatif district, in Eastern Province, brings to 60 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an Agence France Presse count.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the Gulf country executed 76 people, according to a tally based on official figures. Human Rights Watch has put the number at 69.<\/p>\n<p>Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia&#8217;s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Agence France Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded by the sword two nationals convicted of murdering a Syrian and of armed robbery, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim al-Qanbar and Ahmed al-Musalam were found guilty of attacking a labor camp and opening fire at residents, killing Mohammed al-Shuja and wounding another person, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Qanbar was also charged with several acts of armed robbery, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}