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UmmiE
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Saudi prince gets 10-year sentence for drug smuggling

Saudi Prince Nayef al-Shaalan was sentenced in absentia Wednesday to 10 years in jail on charges of involvement in a cocaine smuggling gang, at the outcome of his trial in France.


The 53-year-old prince, who is not in line for the Saudi throne, was one of 10 people handed jail terms of four to 10 years in connection with an operation which landed two tonnes of cocaine at an airfield outside Paris in 1999.


Prince Nayef was convicted of illegally importing drugs, of complicity in the transport, detention and provision of drugs and of criminal conspiracy. He is accused of providing a jet to transport the drugs from Colombia.


Absent during the trial near Paris, the prince denies any involvement in the drug-trafficking ring. A Saudi representative at the hearing said he intended to appeal.


A grandson of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch Abdulaziz, the prince is the subject of an international arrest warrant after failing to appear at an initial hearing in the case.


He was indicted on the basis of testimony from three Columbians in a separate drugs trial in the United States.


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UmmiE
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The Prince is lucky he wasnt found doing it in Saudi Arabia or else some of the punishments he had to go thru if the info was made public:-




Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islamic law that prescribes the death sentence for murder, apostasy, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery.

Saudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world, both in terms of number of people killed and in relation to its population. Between 1980 and 2002, approximately 1,500 people were put to death in the country. The record number of beheadings in one year in Saudi Arabia was 191 in 1995.

Many of the announced Saudi executions were for murder and rape, but a wide range of non-violent crimes also resulted in decapitation. Among the lesser offences that led to executions were apostasy, witchcraft, sexual practices considered offences (adultery, sodomy, homosexuality) and crimes involving both hard and soft drugs.
However, it was reported on September 27, 2005, that Saudi Arabia redefined its drug trafficking laws, giving discretionary powers to judges and allowing them to hand down jail sentences instead of awarding the death penalty. The Saudi Anti-Drug and Mental Effects Regulation stipulated the death penalty for drug traffickers, manufacturers and recipients of any narcotic substances. Judges could now exercise discretion to reduce the sentence to imprisonment for a maximum of 15 years, sessions of 50 lashes, and a minimum fine of 100,000 Saudi riyals [more than 26,000 US dollars].

About two thirds of those executed in Saudi Arabia are foreigners. Saudi justice is especially harsh in its treatment of foreign workers, particularly those from poorer countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, who make up about a quarter of the Saudi population. Migrant workers are vulnerable to abuse from their employers as well as from the authorities. If arrested, foreign nationals may be tricked or coerced into signing a confession in Arabic, which they may not understand. Migrant workers are frequently tortured and ill-treated and more likely than Saudis to be executed or punished by flogging or amputation.

Foreigners condemned to death in Saudi Arabia are typically unaware of their sentences and have no advance notice of their date of execution. In most cases, the condemned people do not even know that their trials had been concluded. The executed do not know what is about to happen to them until the very last moment. A large number of police come into the cell and ask for the person by name. Sometimes people are forcibly dragged out.

Human rights organizations maintain that Saudi Arabia often fails to give defendants fair trials.
Defendants are frequently denied legal assistance before their trials, and legal representation when they appear in court. In October 2002, Saudi Arabia allowed access to a UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of the judiciary for the first time.
Executions take place in public in the conservative kingdom, and by beheading. State-ordered beheadings are performed in courtyards outside crowded mosques in major cities after weekly Friday prayer services. A condemned convict is brought into the courtyard, hands tied, and forced to bow before an executioner, who swings a huge sword amid cries from onlookers of "Allahu Akbar!"- Arabic for "God is great."

In 2002, Hands Off Cain counted 49 executions, including at least one woman. 82 executions, including 2 women, were carried out in 2001. At least 52 people were beheaded in the country in 2003, including one woman.

Thirty eight executions took place in 2004, the lowest number in recent years, however, already in the first nine months of 2005 (up to September 27) that figure has already been overtaken with at least 70 executions.


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Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islamic law that prescribes the death sentence for murder, apostasy, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery.


So converting from Islam is just as bad as murder, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery... scarry.


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I think its time for the U.S to start spreading its freedom in Saudi Arabia


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quote:
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So converting from Islam is just as bad as murder, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery... scarry.


I know its pretty messed up

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So converting from Islam is just as bad as murder, rape, drug trafficking, highway robbery, sabotage and armed robbery... scarry.

I believe that's the law in quite a few Muslim nations


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I believe that's the law in quite a few Muslim nations


Im not trying to be recist but...FUCK THEM!!!


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Im not trying to be recist but...FUCK THEM!!!


recist eh, nice one captain illiterate.

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The Prince is lucky he wasnt found doing it in Saudi Arabia or else some of the punishments he had to go thru if the info was made.


i doubt he would get convicted if he was in Saudi, a slap on the hand at most, but then again he is not part of the technical royal family, he doesn't share the same last name, Legally it carries on from the father and clearly this guy isn't.

in related news, there is more than 12 thousand who are part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

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quote:
Originally posted by Lightshow
I think its time for the U.S to start spreading its freedom in Saudi Arabia

please elaborate!!

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UmmiE
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Interesting stuff,

I wonder how many other somewhat or famous people are into cocaine LOL, besides actor's and singer's............

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