Riyadh, September 10, 2013
According to the website of the American newspaper USA Today, as early as in April this year the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saudi Arabia offered 1239 prisoners, sentenced to death penalty, pardon and monthly payment of money to their families in exchange for participation in combat operations in Syria.
The newspaper notes that among prisoners sent to struggle with the regime of Assad there were citizens of Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Somali, Sudan, Syria, Kuwait and Yemen. All of them had been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murders, sexual assaults, and spreading of drugs.
