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varun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 03:08 AM
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'Why do Saudis kill innocents?'
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/20spec1.htm

...But that was not to be. Shahjahan was beheaded a few hours after he called his wife to say goodbye forever."I do not know why they killed him. Why has Allah done this to us?" laments Ramla. Shahjahan's execution has plunged his family, which grapples with poverty every day, into grief and helplessness.

Five days after his execution, the ministry of external affairs in New Delhi received a message from the Saudi Arabian government, which officially admitted that Shahjahan was 'innocent.'

"This is the first such official revelation of executing an innocent foreign national in any country in the world," says human rights activist Mukundan C Menon...
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funflower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-20-05 03:13 AM
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1. Unbelievable.
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