Re: Where is Saudi, UAE & Sheikh Rasheed?
Laws of the land can be unfair and unfairly target people. Why is it mostly Pakistani or foreign nationals that have been targeted? Do we know if the trials are fair and if they are coerced into taking these drugs. Many times Saudis are caught with drugs but why no such brutal punishment. How do you know they are not taking the fall for a Saudi drug dealer. Why would someone from a poor family do this if they know the punishment?
Why can’t this be brought in? Lot of Pakistani and Indian migrants go to Saudi arabia and UAE to build their cities..and one sole condemnation by a Sheikh is not enough. This is one of a number of examples of unfair discrimination. The law banning Pakistani women marrying Saudi men being another.
Families mourn drug mules beheaded in Saudi Arabia - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Broken dreams
Four years ago, Haq said, two men came and said that for $2,000 they would get Irfan plane tickets and a visa for the Gulf — for many poor Pakistanis, a passport to a better life.
Irfan sold his rickshaw and wife’s jewels and his tea-seller father made up the rest of the money.
The two men then took Irfan to Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and a key transit point for heroin from Afghanistan. But in Karachi, things turned sour, Haq says.
“The two men changed and told him they would kill him unless he did what they wanted,” Haq told AFP. “After that they forced capsules of heroin into his anus.“
Irfan was put on a flight to Saudi Arabia by his new masters. On arrival in Riyadh he was stopped by customs officers and after a brisk trial, condemned to death.
Pakistan is full of stories about drug mules, but they are little discussed in public and get little sympathy.
One Pakistani official told AFP that “in most of the cases the sentence or the punishment is justified.”
Rights group Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia uses the death penalty disproportionately against foreigners, particularly those from South Asia.
Since 1985 around half of 2,000 people executed in the kingdom have been foreigners.
The Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a human rights law firm, has begun trying to get Islamabad to defend them.
“These prisoners are very poor men who have been sold a chance to escape and make something of their lives,” Sohail Yafat, a JPP investigator, told AFP.
Saudi Arabia’s legal system is hardly fair and transparent. Saying law of the land is like saying blasphemy laws are laws of the land so whoever they punish is fair and they deserve it. Or the Hudood ordinances that can result in a raped woman being trialled and jailed for adultery is fair.
Not all laws are fair. This article is old but shows it is an ongoing issue.
Secret Saudi executions shame the West - News - The Independent
Del Ferouza Delaur, a Pakistani girl executed two weeks ago, was reportedly unaware that heroin had been smuggled into her baggage when she was arrested by Saudi security police.
She was what the authorities call a “mule”, an innocent person set up by drug smugglers to carry narcotics. But she was publicly beheaded in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on 25 September.
Occasionally, Saudi authorities have released brief announcements of the execution of women but have never revealed how their sharia courts reached their verdicts, nor why they could find no extenuating circumstances for the instances of husband-murder. Two of the women executed in the Gulf contended - as Sarah Balabagan has done in Abu Dhabi - that their victims had attempted to rape them.