{"id":3045,"date":"2014-11-13T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:35:05","slug":"saudi-beheads-7th-pakistani-on-drugs-charges-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"Saudi beheads 7th Pakistani on drugs charges in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p>A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin became Thursday the seventh person from his country beheaded over the past month in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The execution of Niyaz Mohammed Ghulam Mohammed was carried out in Riyadh after he was \u201ctried and found guilty of attempting to smuggle a large amount of heroin,\u201d the official Saudi Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case brings to 67 the number of foreigners and Saudis executed for crimes this year, despite international concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry says the government is battling narcotics \u201cbecause of their great harm to individuals and society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, an independent expert working on behalf of the United Nations called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are also punishable by death under the kingdom\u2019s strict version of Islamic sharia law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin became Thursday the seventh person from his country beheaded over the past month in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking. The execution of Niyaz Mohammed Ghulam Mohammed was carried out in Riyadh after he was \u201ctried and found guilty of attempting to smuggle a large amount of heroin,\u201d the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-N7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}