These images show the last
moments of two condemned criminals immediately before they were executed
in Kuwait for crimes which have shocked the nation. Ahmad
Abdulsalam al-Baili (left) and Hajjaj Saadi (right) were both hanged yesterday June 18th on a
gallows set up in a car park outside the country's main prison.
Saadi, 33, was executed for abducting and raping 18 young children, while Baili had been convicted of murdering an Asian couple.
The men had provoked widespread
revulsion within Kuwait - Saadi became known as the 'Hawalli Beast'
after the district where he carried out his crimes. He lured 18 boys and
girls under the age of 10 onto rooftops in the area before raping them,
according to the authorities.
Saadi
was arrested in July 2007 as he was about to board a flight to his
homeland, and confessed to the rapes - but he later claimed the
confession had been made under duress. He has also complained that he
was not given consular assistance by the Egyptian embassy ahead of his
execution.
Baili
was sentenced to death after killing an Asian couple in April 2008 by
pouring fuel into their flat and setting it on fire. He later tried to
do the same with an Egyptian couple, but they survived the attack.
The men were hanged around 8am today in the presence of the public prosecutor and other legal authorities.Their bodies seen hanging from the gallows in the pic above.
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