One Nigerian hanged in Saudi Arabia

Originally published July 3, 1999

A statement issued by the Saudi Ministry of the Interior said that a death sentence was carried out on Friday in Jeddah against Ahmad Muhammad Qasem, a Nigerian, after he was convicted of smuggling amounts of hashish and cocaine in his stomach into Saudi Arabia.

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