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TEHRAN, April 10, YJC - Saudi Arabia has beheaded three Pakistani nationals after sentencing them to death on charges related to drug trafficking, bringing to 26 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The convicted Pakistani men, identified as Mohammed Ashraf Shafi Mohammed, Mohammed Aref Mohammed Anayt and Mohammed Afdal Asghar Ali were beheaded on Sunday, state-run SPA news agency reported.
According to the agency, the three had been found guilty of "smuggling quantities of heroin in their stomachs".
Saudi Arabia carried out 158 executions, including 71 foreign nationals, in 2015. This number of executions in terms of annual basis in Saudi Arabia has been unseen since 1995.
Saudi officials execute convicts by sword and then dangle their corpses from a helicopter to make sure the public could see the result of the execution.
Concern is growing about the increasing number of executions in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi authorities say the executions reveal the Saudi government’s commitment to "maintaining security and realizing justice.”
The country has come under particular criticism from rights groups for the executions carried out for non-fatal crimes, Presstv reported.
According to the London-based rights group Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Saudi regime to abolish its "ghastly” beheadings.
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