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HRH Princess Mishaal bint Fahd Al Saud (1958 – 15 July 1977; Arabic: الأميرة مشاعل بنت فهد بن محمد بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was a member of the House of Saud who was executed by shooting [1] for committing adultery [2] in 1977, at the age of 19.
Death of a Princess (Arabic: موت أميرة) is a British 1980 drama-documentary produced by ATV in cooperation with WGBH in the United States. The drama is based on the true story of Princess Mishaal, a young Saudi Arabian princess, who was executed, by shooting, [1] along with her lover who was beheaded for adultery upon her reported confession.
She was held captive against her will in a Jeddah compound by the Saudi regime. [2] [4] [5] The Saudi regime announced her death in September 2021 without any further explanation. [2] [6] Hala was born to Alanoud Al-Fayez, a Jordanian noblewoman. [2] Her mother married King Abdullah when she was fifteen years old and he was about fifty years ...
The execution was the largest carried out in the kingdom since 1980. [52] These executions were the first to be carried out in 2016, with rights groups claiming that Saudi Arabia had executed at least 157 people in the year prior. In 2015, it was said that this year holds the greatest number of executions since 1995. [53]
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(Bloomberg) -- A prominent Saudi princess made a rare public plea to the king seeking to be released along with her daughter from a maximum-security jail in Riyadh, saying she’s seriously ill ...
Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year, the highest number in decades, despite de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman's 2022 assertion that the death penalty had been eliminated except for murder ...
Al Kabeer's execution for murder was announced by Saudi state media on 18 October 2016. [2] He was the first member of the Saudi royal family to be executed since the execution of 19 year old Mishaal bint Fahd bin Mohammed Al Saud in 1977.