Saudis Behead Two for Rape

(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) By the sword, two Saudi police officers were beheaded today for raping an expatriate woman.

Corporal Shaalan bin Nasser al-Qahtani and Lance Corporal Fahd bin Hassan al-Sebeyi were convicted of attacking an expatriate and raping his niece at a checkpoint they were manning in the capital, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

They had stopped them late in the night, beat the man up and locked him in a police car and then raped the woman, it added, without revealing the age or nationality of the victims.

The two men were arrested shortly after the victims reported them at the nearest police station, it said.

Since the beginning of the year, the Saudis have lopped 11 melons. On a yearly basis, Saudi Arabia regularly beheads between 100 and 150 people.