Abu Dhabi - The Justice Ministry in the United Arab Emirates said in a statement yesterday that a court had sentenced two men to be crucified alive in public and then executed for a series of murders. However, an official source at the ministry said later that the statement should be considered cancelled.
The Justice Ministry had said that Majid Fakher Hussein Majeed, a UAE national, and Abdul Mehdi Karim Mushtaq, an Iranian, would be crucified today and executed on Tuesday morning near the central prison of the oasis town of al-Ain. The two had murdered five people in separate cases prior to July 20th, 1995.
