Word: sharia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tina Sharia Sicklerville...
After weeks of investigation by Saudi authorities, the execution came swiftly. Loudspeaker vans rumbled through the streets of the Saudi capital one afternoon last week announcing that a sharia (religious) court had found the prince guilty and he would be executed immediately. Within minutes, an estimated 6,000 Saudis streamed into the city's Court of Justice Square facing the Riyadh Mosque. At the appointed hour, the young prince was led, blindfolded, to the square. As he knelt with his hands tied behind his back, one of the sharia judges read him the court's verdict. Immediately thereafter...