imported_Bruce Fee

http://pressesc.com/01172109987_saud..._brutal_regime

Saudi Arabia hanged and then crucified four Sri Lankan expats convicted of robbery and put their mutilated bodies in public display, according to the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry.

Human Rights groups have condemned the action by Saudi Authorities for executing without prior notification the men who were originally only sentenced to imprisonment.

“The execution of these four migrants, who had been badly beaten and locked up for years without access to lawyers, is a travesty of justice,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “International law only allows states to use the death penalty for the most serious crimes and in the most stringent of circumstances – and neither condition was met in this case.”

The Sri Lankan embassy identified the men as Victor Corea, Ranjith Silva, Sanath Pushpakumara and Shamila Sangeeth Kumara.

The men were convicted for armed robbery by the General Court in Riyadh according to a judgment delivered in October 2004, but Amnesty International alleged that the trial did not meet minimum international standards of justice.

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Riyadh, responsible for around 350,000 Sri Lankan migrants are estimated to be working in Saudi Arabia, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo had been closely following up this case and the Government presented two appeals for clemency first by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and subsequently by President Mahinda Rajapakse to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.

The latter appeal was delivered by hand by the President’s Special Envoy Minister Hon. A H M Fowzie, Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development to Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz in Riyadh on 29th May 2006.

Amnesty International reported that Saudi Arabia has executed 17 persons already in 2007.

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not bad, eh? George Bush's allies

imported_Jibran

Its their law. They wanna set an example for everyone who ****s around in their country.

imported_d16y8

They should have been publicly tarred and feathered.

DumbasSi

Isn't crime also extremely rare in most Middle Eastern countries? I guess that is why.

Better then spending tax payers money having criminals in prison for very long terms.

szuberi

that is correct...the crime rate is very low due to the very reason that there is harsh punishment. although i was not aware that there is capital punishment in case of an armed robbery. i thought its only if you kill or attempt to kill someone.

i agree that its better than spending tax payer's money.

Rice Burner

Quick call the U.S.! Send the Marines. Anti democracy! *********! monarcy, dictator and tyrant all rolled into one. Oh wait, hold on, Saudi is already doing what ever the U.S. wants so its ok. no one is gonna say anything here!

imported_Zyepher

Which American pissed in your cornflakes today?

imported_shogun99

All of them....

imported_nnniiiccckkk007

we need pictures!

imported_goaT

its true. i've seen them my self...well if u just steal they cut off ur hand(s) but if its armed robbery they'll execute u. living there isnt as bad as ppl think...theres no poverty (or hardly any) and no crime/sexual assult and other stuff u hear on western news.

DumbasSi

"An eye for an eye"