Saudi Arabia beheads 92nd person in 2016
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The photo shows public beheading in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has beheaded one of its citizens sentenced to death for murder, bringing to 92 the number of such executions since the start of year.
According to Press TV, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement that the man, identified as Mohsen al-Dosari, was beheaded on Tuesday. He had been found guilty of stabbing to death another Saudi man following a dispute.
The latest beheading brings to 92 the number of the people executed across the kingdom so far in 2016.
In the most stunning case, Saudi Arabia executed on January 2 Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr along 46 other people in defiance of international calls for the release of the prominent Shia cleric and other jailed political dissidents in the kingdom.
According to an AFP count, Saudi Arabia carried out 153 executions, including 71 foreign nationals, in 2015. This number of executions in terms of annual basis in Saudi Arabia has been unseen since 1995.
In January 2015, Saudi Arabia publicly beheaded Laila Bint Abdul Muttalib Basim, a Muslim woman from Myanmar, by sword in the holy city of Mecca.
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