Saudi executes 4 people for drug smuggling

September 02, 2014 21:27

Saudi Arabia announced today that it executed another four people it says were found guilty of trying to illegally smuggle large quantities of pills and hashish into the kingdom.

That brings to 45 the number of people executed this year in Saudi Arabia, according to an Associated Press tally. Thirty of those were executed over the past four weeks alone. The interior ministry said that three of the men executed were Syrian and the fourth is Iranian. No further details were released.

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