Saudi Arabia: Further Information on Death Penalty/Flogging

Index Number: MDE 23/014/2009
Date Published: 12 May 2009
Categories: Saudi Arabia

Five of the seven men named above, including two who had been convicted of crimes they allegedly committed while aged 17, were executed on 10 May in the city of Madina. The remaining two men, Bilal Bin Muslih Bin Jabir al-Muwallad and Ahmad Hamid Muhammad Sabir, who were sentenced to flogging and imprisonment in the same case, are at risk of being flogged at any time.