Not long ago I talked about a woman who had been sentenced to jail and to 200 lashes for being gang raped. Her crime was that she had been in the car of a man who was not her husband or family member—a no-no- in Saudi Arabia. Here is her story:  source

More news out of Saudi Arabia. Two are beheaded, one for rape and one for drug trafficking. I must say that I actually don’t blame Saudi Arabia for strict laws when it comes to drug dealing. Drugs will ruin a society quicker than almost anything else.

Saudi authorities beheaded a local national convicted of kidnapping and raping teenagers and a Pakistani for drug trafficking in two separate incidents, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.

The Pakistani national was arrested while trying to smuggle heroin and hashish to the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by Saudi Press Agency.

His execution took place in the eastern city of Dammam in the early hours in the morning.

On Friday, authorities also beheaded Saudi citizen Khalaf al-Anzi in Riyadh for kidnapping and raping a teenager, the statement said. According to the Saudi Press agency, Khalaf filmed the rape with his own telephone.

When Al-Anzi attempted to abduct a second adolescent, the teenager managed to flee and notify police, it added.

Because Saudi Arabia’s executions are public, you would think that anyone with half a brain would have the good sense not to commit any serious crimes over there but apparently not! To date, 131 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year. If you are convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape or armed robbery, you stand to be pubicly exectuted. This makes one wonder what he seven men were thinking about when they raped the woman in the incident I discussed a week or two ago.

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I’ve also blogged about Saudi Arabian laws HERE