Woman Publicly Beheaded In Mecca
Footage of the execution was posted to YouTube by numerous people, but the website has removed the video.
It shows Burmese resident Laila Bint Abdul Muttalib Basim being dragged into a street and held down by four police officers.
She repeatedly shouts: “I did not kill, I did not kill,” before she is struck with a sword to her neck. Officers struck down two more times before the beheading is complete. They then swiftly remove her body from the area.
“Authorities have two methods of beheading people,” a human rights activist, Mohammed al-Saeedi, told the MEE. “One way is to inject the prisoner with painkillers to numb the pain and the other is without the painkiller.”
“This woman was beheaded without painkillers – they wanted to make the pain more powerful for her.”
Following the execution, the Ministry of Interior released a statement saying it had been done to “restore security and realising justice.”
“It implements the rulings of God against all those who attack innocents and spill their blood. The government warns all those who are seduced into committing similar crimes that the rightful punishment is their fate,” it said.
According to Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia executed 87 people in 2014, and 72 of those took place between August and December. Fourty-three percent of those executed were foreign nationals or women.
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