Kuwait on Tuesday executed a 33-year-old Egyptian for raping 17 children aged below ten, local media reported quoting the prosecution.
Hajjaj Saadi, who was awarded five death sentences, pleaded not guilty during trial and insisted that he was forced to confess under duress.
He was arrested in July 2007 while trying to fly out of the country. Authorities said Saadi had confessed to raping 17 boys and girls after luring them onto rooftops in Hawalli, an area mainly inhabited by foreigners, south of capital Kuwait City.
Another Egyptian man, identified as Ahmad Abdulsalam al-Baili, was also sent to the gallows on Tuesday for killing an Asian couple by setting fire to their home and attempting to burn another couple the same way, the prosecution said in a statement.
Tuesday's hangings were the second set of executions since death penalty was reintroduced in the oil-rich Gulf State after a six-year moratorium. Kuwait had executed three men in April on being found guilty of murder.
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