A Saudi man was beheaded Tuesday for
torturing and beating his two-year-old boy to death, the interior ministry
said.
Maqbul bin Madi al-Sharari hit his
son Mohammed “repeatedly with a cane on the back of his head and the rest of
his body,” the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
He also punched the toddler in the
face repeatedly and “burned him in different parts of his body, torturing him
several times, which led to his death,” the ministry said.
Sharari’s execution in the northern
Jawf region, brings to 18 the number of death sentences carried out this year
in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Saudi Arabia beheaded 78 people in
2013, according to an AFP count.
Last year, the UN High Commission
for Human Rights denounced a “sharp increase in the use of capital punishment”
there since 2011.
According to rights group Amnesty
International, the number of executions rose from 27 in 2010, including five
foreigners, to 82 in 2011, including 28 foreigners.
In 2012, the number of executions
dipped slightly to 79, among them 27 foreigners.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed
robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s
strict version of Islamic sharia law.
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