RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has executed an Indian man for smuggling heroin
   and flogged 12 teenage boys in public for harassing women, Saudi media
   reported on Sunday.
   The youths were given 15 lashes each for "flirting and bothering
   families" at a park designated for families in the conservative Muslim
   kingdom, al-Eqtisadiah newspaper said.
   Police flogged the youths immediately after catching them in the park
   in the resort of Taif. The boys had entered the enclosure by scaling
   the walls.
   Saudi Arabia's strict implementation of Islamic sharia law bans
   unrelated men and women from mixing before marriage. The paper did not
   make clear when the floggings happened.
   In a separate case an Indian man was beheaded on Sunday for smuggling
   an unspecified amount of heroin into the kingdom, the official Saudi
   Press Agency said.
   The execution in the eastern Khobar province raised to at least 27 the
   number of people put to death in the Gulf Arab state this year.
   Drug smugglers, murderers and rapists are usually executed by public
   beheading. At least 75 people were executed in the country last year
   and 121 in 2000.
   Other punishments in the kingdom include stoning for adultery and
   flogging for relatively minor crimes including alcohol consumption.
   On the bright side at least some of them go in for fucking camels.