Syrians protest beheading of one of their countrymen in Saudi Arabia
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Scores of Syrians are protesting in Damascus on Saturday against Saudi Arabia's beheading of a countryman convicted of drug smuggling.
Syrian Ibrahim al-Jarekh was beheaded Friday in Saudi Arabia two weeks after two other Syrians were beheaded there on the same charge.
Nearly 100 protesters held a sit-in to demand that Saudi hand over other Syrian prisoners.
One of the protesters, 38-year-old Abdul-Karim Mohammad, said his brother has been in Saudi jails for four months and is waiting execution on drug charges.
"These are politically motivated verdicts," Mohammed said.
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