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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi authorities have beheaded two traffic policemen convicted of beating a man and sexually assaulting his niece.
An Interior Ministry statement says the two men were executed on Friday in the capital Riyadh.
They were convicted of assaulting a non-Saudi resident of the kingdom and raping the man's niece.
The nationalities of the residents were not disclosed. Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery can be executed, usually with a sword.
Their deaths bring to 11 the number of beheadings in the kingdom this year, according to an Associated Press count. In 2008, 102 people were beheaded.
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Saudi Arabia has executed two policemen after they were convicted of raping an expatriate woman, the state news agency SPA reported late on Friday. The two Saudi policemen were executed on Friday in the capital Riyadh, SPA said quoting the interior ministry. The two officers, Shaalan bin Nasser al-Qahtani and Fahd bin Hassan al-Sebeyi, were found guilty of raping the unidentified woman after they stopped a car carrying her and her uncle at a security checkpoint.
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