AFP/Riyadh
Saudi authorities beheaded Wednesday a Yemeni convicted of promoting drugs in the kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Majed Ahmed Shraheli was found guilty of "receiving and promoting a large amount of hashish," said the interior ministry statement published on the official Saudi Press Agency.
His beheading in the southwestern city of Jizan brings to 55 the number of death sentences carried so far this year, compared with 87 in all of 2014, according to AFP tallies.
