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Faisal Bin Musa'id
Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud ( ar, فيصل بن مساعد آل سعود, ''Fayṣal bin Musāʿid ʾĀl Suʿūd''; 4 April 194418 June 1975) was the assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Early life Faisal bin Musa'id was born in 1944. His father was Prince Musa'id bin Abdulaziz, the paternal half-brother to six Saudi kings including King Faisal. His mother was Watfa, a daughter of Muhammad bin Talāl, the 12th and last Rashidi emir. Musa'id and Wafta later divorced. Prince Faisal and his siblings were much closer to their maternal Rashidi relatives than their paternal Al Saud relatives. In 1965, Faisal's older brother Khaled was shot and killed by a Saudi police officer while he led an assault on a new television station in Riyadh that had been recently founded by King Faisal. Some people opposed the establishment of a national television service, as they believed it immoral to produce images of humans. While that is the official version, the details of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deera Square
__NOTOC__ Deera Square ( ar, ساحة الديرة) is a public space in Deera, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is also known as Justice Square, and derisively as Chop Chop Square by Western visitors. It is a former site of public executions, where those sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia were publicly beheaded. At unannounced times, Saudi security forces and other officials cleared the area to make way for the execution to take place. After the beheading of the condemned, the head is stitched to the body, which is wrapped up and taken away for the final rites. It is a crime to record, with photos or videos, the executions, despite the number of attendees witnessing such public events. Gallery File:Dira Square.JPG, The square in 2007 File:OldRiyadh 1943.jpg, Deera Square, 1943 See also * Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia is a legal penalty. Death sentences are almost exclusively based on the system of judicial sentencing discretion (''tazir'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
