Abdusattar Ali
Date unknown
Saudi Arabia

Gulf News
(Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
April 2, 2007

Policemen executed for murder and robberies

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia executed two policemen yesterday for 
murdering a Bangladeshi taxi driver, raising to at least 25 the 
number of people put to death in the kingdom this year.

Abdul Rahman Al Qah' tani and Mohammad Al Ghamidi were 
found guilty of murder and complicity in murdering Abdusattar Ali 
after they robbed him, the interior ministry said in a statement 
carried by state news agency SPA.

They were also found guilty of several armed robbery and attack 
charges against other taxi drivers, it added.

34 executed last year

The sentence was carried out in Riyadh.

Another policeman, Turki Al Tuweirqi, was executed last Sunday 
for sexually abusing two teenage boys.

Convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers are subject to 
the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, usually by public beheading. 
The kingdom executed 34 people in 2006, 36 in 2005 and 86 in 
2004.

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