A Bangladeshi man has been put to death after being convicted in the assassination case of Saudi diplomat Khalaf Al-Ali.
According to police forces, Saif al-Islam, hanged at 30, led a gang that tried to rob the diplomat. Al-Ali, 45, who worked in the consular section of the Saudi Arabian embassy, was shot in the capital’s diplomatic zone in front of his rented apartment. He later died in hospital.
“He was executed in accordance with a court order,” prison official Shahjahan Ahmed told AFP.
The Supreme Court in August upheld Islam’s death sentence. He was originally sentenced to death in 2013 by a trial court which described him as the main perpetrator of the killing.
More than two million Bangladeshis are working in Saudi Arabia, which is a key ally of the South Asian country and a major donor.
Bangladesh regularly executes death row convicts despite criticism from human rights groups.
In recent years at least five top extremist leaders, who have been convicted of war crimes, and nearly a dozen militants were executed — all by hanging — in high security prisons
