Kuwait executes five convicts, including a convicted Sri Lankan drug dealer

Kuwait said yesterday that it executed five prisoners, including a convicted drug dealer from Sri Lanka.

The inmates were hanged at the Central Prison, Kuwait’s Public Prosecution said in a statement. Prosecutors said the five include the man convicted in the mosque attack, Abdulrahman Sabah Idan, three people convicted of murder, and a convicted drug dealer from Sri Lanka. One of the convicted murderers was Egyptian; another was Kuwaiti.

Idan, known as Saud, was a so-called Bidoon, a group largely made up of descendants of desert nomads considered stateless by the Kuwaiti government. During his trial, prosecutors described him as driving the Saudi suicide bomber to the Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City.