Abdul Rahman Al-Ali Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – The body of Mazin Muhammad Masawee is still at King Fahd General Hospital's morgue in Jeddah. Masawee was executed in Baghdad a month ago. His corpse arrived in Jeddah Friday. The plane carrying the body touched down at 4:30 P.M. at King Abdulaziz International Airport. When his family members saw Mazin's corpse, they burst into tears. His father said, “May Allah have mercy on his soul. My son was innocent.” Mazin's father said his son did not do anything. “My son talked to me on the day he was executed and told me and his mother that he would be hanged. We didn't expect that this would happen too soon.” The clearance procedures at the airport took around two hours and the body was taken to the hospital. Scores of people flocked to the airport to offer their condolences to Mazin's father. The Red Crescent Society's representative handed Mazin's father his son's will. When Mazin's body was taken to the morgue, the father asked to see his son for the last time. He and his relatives entered the morgue and were shocked by what they saw. “Mazin's face was puffy and each eye was as big as a coffee cup,” the father said. There were small holes all over his body and marks of the rope around his neck, he added. “I still can't believe what I saw on Mazin's body.” Okaz/Saudi Gazette obtained official documents issued by Iraqi authorities which indicated that the Iraqi embassy in the Kingdom kept Mazin's execution under wraps and denied on Aug. 27 that he was executed while in fact he was executed the same day. The death certificate issued for Mazin by the Iraqi Ministry of Health noted that the cause of death was “death by hanging”. The certificate was issued on Aug. 27 and had the names of Mazin's parents and his personal information such as sex, nationality, religion, date of birth (which was in 1981) and place of birth as well. The father lauded the cooperation and efforts exerted by the Saudi embassy in Jordan which helped in expediting the repatriation of Mazin's body to the Kingdom. The father said when Mazin called him on the day he was executed, Mazin asked the father to stay strong and believe in fate. He also told his father that he wanted to be buried in Madinah. “I never thought my son would die on that day. I received a call from a prisoner on that day and he told me that Mazin was taken outside to be hanged. Later that day, Mazin's lawyer called me in the afternoon to tell me that Mazin was hanged at 2:30 P.M.” The lawyer had told the father that she appealed Mazin's death sentence and the court was still considering the death sentence, the father said. “My son was executed unfairly and there were no legal grounds for such execution.”
