Two nationals were beheaded on Monday in the Eastern Province of Al-Ahsa after being convicted of drug smuggling, the Interior Ministry said. The pair, Mustafa Bin Nuh Al-Zain and Anas Bin Malik Al-Duheim, were accused of establishing a drug-smuggling ring inside the Kingdom and of trafficking in large quantities of drugs, the ministry said in a statement. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are punishable by death under the Islamic Shariah law.
