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Saudi Arabia executes five Ethiopians for hashish smuggling

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Vanguard Nigeria · Middle East

Saudi Arabia has executed five Ethiopian nationals convicted of drug smuggling, bringing the kingdom’s execution toll this year to 205, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. The five were convicted of participating in smuggling hashish into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency on Thursday. They were […] The post Saudi Arabia executes five Ethiopians for hashish smuggling appeared first on Vanguard News.

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