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Kohail murder case

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Mohamamed Kohail is a Canadian citizen who might be the first westerner in decades to be executed in Saudi Arabia. He has been judged guilty in a Saudi court for the murder of a 19 years old man during a fight in a school yard in 2007. In accordance with Saudis law, he is planned to be beheaded in public.

The Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper as officially requested clemency from the Saudi government.