ABHA, 20 August 2004 — Three Saudi men convicted of sodomizing a minor were executed in the Asir region yesterday, the Interior Ministry announced.
Manea ibn Zafer Al-Sharani, Mujri ibn Mohammad Al-Nishawi Al-Bishi and Mohammad ibn Mubarak Al-Nashawi Al-Aklabi were sentenced to death for “stealing a car, consuming alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan, kidnapping a boy under armed threat, taking him out into the desert and sodomizing him after forcing him to drink alcohol with them,” the ministry said in a statement.
