Execution of Saudi Princess Misha'al bint Fahd

Princess Misha'al bint Fahd  was a member of House of Saud, who was executed by gunshot for alleged adultery in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz, who was an older brother of King Khalid.

Her family sent Misha'al bint Fahd, at her own request, to Lebanon to attend school. While residing in there, she fell in affection with a man, Khaled al-Sha'er Mulhallal, the nephew of Ali Hassan al-Shaer, the Saudi ambassador in Lebanon, and they began an affair. Upon their return to Saudi Arabia, it emerged that they had conspired to meet alone on several occasions and a charge of adultery was brought against them.




She made few attempts to evade and escape from Saudi Arabia. She made an attempt to fake her own drowning and was caught trying to escape from Saudi Arabia with Khaled. She also disguised as a man and tried to escape but she was recognized by a passport examiner at Jeddah airport. She was subsequently returned to her family.

Under Sharia law, a person can only be convicted of adultery by the testimony of four adult male witnesses to the act of sexual penetration, or by their own admission of guilt, stating three times in court "I have committed adultery." There were no witnesses. Her family urged her not to confess, but instead to merely promise never to see her lover again. On her return to the courtroom, she allegedly repeated her confession: "I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery." This account has been challenged by the docudrama Death of a Princess, which claims the princess and her lover were never actually tried in court.

On 15 July 1977 at the only age of 19, she was executed along with her boy friend. Both were publicly executed in Jeddah by the side of the Queen's Building in the carpark. Princess was shot several times in the head in 1977 in a carpark. Her death is thought to have been ordered by her grandfather, Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the King's older brother.  Despite her royal status, she was blindfolded, made to kneel, and executed with the gun shot on the explicit instructions of her grandfather, a senior member of the royal family, for the alleged dishonour she brought on her clan and defying a royal order calling for her to marry a man selected by the family.


Khaled, after being forced to watch her execution, was beheaded with a sword by, it is believed, one of the princess's male relatives. The executioner was not practiced or dressed as a normal executioner. Prince Muhammad’s bodyguards  likely carried out ‘the execution’. Khallid received a blow on the left and on the right of the head with a short sword. It took five blows to sever his head, which was not the work of a professional executioner. Both executions were conducted near the palace in Jeddah, not in the public execution square in Jeddah.

ISIL Execution: 19 Yazidi Girls Burned Alive in Cages After Refusing to be Sex Slaves

7 June 2016, A group of Yazidi girls who refused to become Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) sex slaves were locked in cages and burned alive, reports say.

ISIL jihadists publicly executed the 19 Yazidi girls in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to the Kurdish ARA news agency.

The girls were killed in front of hundreds of people, according to local media activist Abdullah al-Malla. “They were punished for refusing to have sex with ISIL militants,” he told ARA.

ISIL is said to view Yazidis – members of an ancient religion who are of Kurdish ethnicity – as heretics and “fire-worshipers.”

A witness told the agency: 'The 19 girls were burned to death, while hundreds of people were watching.



'Nobody could do anything to save them from the brutal punishment.'

It is estimated more than 3,000 Yazidi girls have been taken as sex slaves by ISIS after they took over northern Iraq.

Thousands of them remain trapped on Mount Sinjar and according to local and military sources, they have suffered mass killings, rape and kidnappings.

In territories occupied by ISIS anybody who opposes their religion can be turned into slave, and they are often considered as 'devil worshippers' by the terror group.

When ISIL overran northern Iraq “it engaged in a systematic genocide of the Yazidi population, murdering the men and taking the women and children captive, forcing many into sex slavery,” the ARA report said.

Healthy Baby Born to Woman Brain-Dead for Almost 4 Months

A healthy baby has been born to a woman who has been brain-dead for almost four months, hospital officials say.

The boy was born in Portugal's capital Lisbon by Caesarean section after 32 weeks, weighing 2.35kg (5lb, 3oz).

His mother was declared brain dead on February 20 after having a brain haemorrhage.

"The foetus appeared to be in good health [so] the decision was taken with the family to follow through with the pregnancy," the hospital said.

It added that the birth represented Portugal's longest-ever survival of a foetus whose mother was brain-dead.

In January, a baby boy was born in Wroclaw, Poland, after surviving for 55 days in the womb of his mother, who had been declared brain-dead after a tumour.