Thread: Saudis to lash Canadian teen, life spared

How BARBARIC. Public beheading!

Saudis to lash Canadian teen, life spared

Sultan Kohail, 17, will also serve a year in prison; his older brother, Mohamed Kohail, 23, faces public beheading

Apr 05, 2008 01:38 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL–A Canadian teen charged in Saudi Arabia for the death of a man has reportedly been sentenced to one year in prison and 200 lashes.

Mahmoud Al-Ken, a reporter for a Montreal Arabic radio station, says the family of Sultan Kohail, told him the 17-year-old was sentenced earlier today.

Sultan and his brother Mohamed Kohail were detained in January 2007 after a schoolyard brawl in which a man died of internal injuries.

Mohamed Kohail, 23, was sentenced to death by public beheading.

Al-Ken says a different judge who presided over Sultan Kohail's trial permitted a "vigorous" cross-examination of the prosecution's witnesses, a key component he said Mohamed did not have in his case.

He says the family hopes the Saudi Arabian courts will allow a similar cross-examination for Mohamed Kohail's appeal.

The brothers maintain their innocence and both are appealing their sentences.

Al-Ken says the prosecutors asked for the death sentence in Sultan Kohail's case.

A third accused, a Jordanian national, was also sentenced to death.

Both brothers have been Canadian citizens since 2005 and lived in Montreal before returning to Saudi Arabia in 2006.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/410630

They're Saudi, they know the rules.

Canadian since "05" means they are Saudi to me!

Why were they there?

Why can't we could punish the Foreign Nationals that come here like that. I don't belive they should get asylum like they do.

Beheadings--the Saudis are a sick bunch of blood-thirsty morons..

Hanging, beheading, gas chamber, firing squad, lethal injection, and electrocution all have the same end result. Actually, beheading is probably quicker and less painful than most established methods of execution. Yes, in the modern world beheading is considered barbaric, however, who are we to judge? Heck, less than 100 years ago we were still utilizing public hangings (last public hanging in the United States was in the 1930's).