The Saudi Arabian government arrested a man who filmed the state-sanctioned beheading of a woman in the Islamic holy city of Mecca last week, with authorities calling the action a cybercrime but refusing to specify a charge.

On January 12, Saudi authorities publicly executed a woman accused of beating her seven-year-old stepdaughter to death. In the grainy video apparently shot on a mobile phone, the woman repeatedly claims her innocence before a swordsman takes three swings at her neck, finally silencing her cries.

It’s the eleventh execution carried out by Saudi Arabia since the start of the year, which has also seen the public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam. Saudi authorities postponed the blogger’s next round of beatings — which were set to continue for another 19 weeks — after video of his punishment went public online.

Some Saudis are outraged by a renewed focus on their nation by human-rights groups, claiming the state only executes people for serious crimes and that their methods are no less humane than those practiced in the United States. They have called for a crackdown on those spreading videos of the gruesome punishments.

The Saudi newspaper Okaz reported that the man arrested in Mecca on Sunday was a security officer who leaked the video to human-rights activists. The paper said the officer would face both civilian and military justice.

Via Mediaite.