Saudi Arabia;The Country That Beheads Women

Woman struggles during state sanctioned beheading, 10th execution this month in Saudi Arabia 

SAUDI Arabia has long been known as a place that plays by its own rules.

Floggings and beheadings are a pretty standard affair. Strict rules are enforced against women, including no driving, voting or swimming. Christians are banned from openly practising their religion. The press is not free.
Last week Saudi officials enforced their rule with the violent, heartbreaking, public beheading of a woman who protested her innocence until the final moment when a sword fell across her neck. A member of the public who filmed and uploaded the execution was arrested but the footage cast a light on the extreme practice. It also begged the question: What is going on in the desert kingdom that we don’t see?
“I DID NOT KILL. THIS IS INJUSTICE”
Those are the final words of accused murderer Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim before she was held down and beheaded in a busy street in the holy city of Mecca this week. The woman was pleading her case when the sword fell ... twice.
She was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering her 6-year-old stepdaughter.
The execution was by no means an exception. This year alone, 10 people have been beheaded there — 87 people were executed last year and 78 people were executed there in 2013, placing Saudi Arabia behind only Iran and Iraq in terms of the sheer volume of state sanctioned executions. More than 2000 people were executed in Saudi Arabia between 1985 and 2013. Elsewhere, Blogger Raif Badawi was jailed for 10 years recently after starting a website for social and political debate in Saudi Arabia. Raif will receive 50 lashings a week for a year for setting up the Saudi Arabian Liberals website.
-NEWSLTD