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Saudi paedophile to be beheaded | Saudi paedophile to be beheaded |
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A Saudi court has ruled that a man convicted of raping five children will be beheaded and crucified. | |
Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly, 22, left his youngest victim, aged three, stranded in the desert to die. | |
He was caught when he tried to abduct another boy by offering him a lift home from school in his car. | |
The court of appeal in Riyadh approved the death sentence handed down in June. Beheading is permitted for serious offences in the conservative kingdom. | |
More than 40 people have been executed in such a fashion this year. | |
Reports suggest Ramaly lured children into his car near their school, near the town of Hail, and took them to isolated areas to rape them. | |
Human rights group Amnesty International has criticized the court proceedings saying Ramaly did not have access to a lawyer during his trial and that there are reports he may suffer from a psychological disorder. | |
International rights advocates have long been critical of the death sentences in Saudi Arabia, but the authorities defend the practice as a quick and clean form of execution sanctioned by the Islamic faith. | |
Crucifixion means the body will be attached to wooden beams and displayed in public after the beheading. | Crucifixion means the body will be attached to wooden beams and displayed in public after the beheading. |