Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded two men after being convicted of drug trafficking, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported quoting an Interior Ministry announcement.
While Mohammed Abdulmalik Ajaj, a Syrian, was executed in the northern province of Jawf for smuggling more than 200,000 banned narcotic pills, Saudi citizen Hamad al-Yami was beheaded in Jizan in the country's southwest for trafficking hashish, the SPA said.
Tuesday's beheadings bring to eight the number of executions carried out in in the ultra-conservative country so far this year, reports said.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had voiced alarm at the increasing number of executions in the oil-rich country.
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