Saudi Arabia beheads Sri Lankan maid

[Mad Indian]

Is it because beheaded people head towards 72 pussies and hanged people go to hell to get roasted?

Hypocrisy?

If the woman (maid) in question, had indeed consciously smothered the child, then she fully deserves to be executed.
She doesn't deserve any sympathy simply because she's 17. What I'm saying if she had an intent to kill the child and did so with full awareness, then there is no question that she needs to be killed. I would have shown mercy if she was maybe below the age of 12 or 13.
As for beheading, well there are cleaner ways to do it, but then, it's their country their customs. End of story.

+1. Well said

 

[Yusuf]

wasn't it possible for Sri Lanka to ask China to interfere...I am sure if they could have made China to interfere in this matter these spineless arabs would have let the poor girl go away....

Isn't there a message in that?

 

[vishwaprasad]

Isn't there a message in that?

Yes after all Sri Lanka can be next Diego Garcia, this time for China in this region....

 

[Yusuf]

Yes after all Sri Lanka can be next Diego Garcia, this time for China in this region....

No. It means china wont bother in all this even of SL approached it.

 

[vishwaprasad]

No. It means china wont bother in all this even of SL approached it.

I think you are right....being a girl from poor family and poor country she was totally helpless...hope SL govt. keeps its promise and help her family to come out of financial crisis so it will be a real homage for her

 

[vishwaprasad]

Well, yeah, because he is a prince.

The Saudis have no sense of justice. They are still a bunch of Bedouins. They have this concept of blood money.

I know an Indian carpenter who went to Saudi to work. He was part of a group of carpenters. They even used to do Durga Puja. The Saudi authorities knew that. The condition was that the idol would have to be transported in a sealed container and the rituals performed inside a closed hall so that no one can see, and the idol should be disposed off so that no one can see. It all depends upon how much leverage the employer has with the authorities.

I remember there was an Indian Abdul Latif Naushad who was pardoned by the Saudis after Indian government put pressure. If you are influential, you can secure your citizens. Unfortunately, Sri Lanka is not that influential. I bet the Saudis will not try such nonsense with US citizens.

But this man was pardoned as it was not a murder or accidental death which is in the case of Nafeeq. I do not think that Saudis had pardoned even this Indian if that Saudi citizen had died even if by mistake.

 

[pmaitra]

Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid

Demonstrators in Colombo protest against the execution of Rizana Nafeek. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

The execution of 24-year-old Rizana Nafeek has cast a spotlight on the plight of dozens of migrant workers on death row in Saudi Arabia
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More than 45 foreign maids are facing execution on death row in Saudi Arabia, the Observer has learned, amid growing international outrage at the treatment of migrant workers.
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Saudi officials said that Rizana Nafeek was beheaded in public near Riyadh last Wednesday. She had been sentenced to death for the murder of a baby in her care, although she claimed that the child died as a result of a choking accident.
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FACING THE DEATH PENALTY

Tuti Tursilawati binti Warjuki, 27

Arrived in Saudi Arabia from Indonesia in 2009 and is reported to have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her employer until, in May 2010, she beat him to death with a stick after he tried to rape her. Supporters say that she received no legal representation for the first two months of her trial; she was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to death. The family of the dead man are reported to have asked for her execution rather than blood money.

Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, 40

Travelled to Saudi Arabia to work in 2006 but was arrested in 2007 for killing her female employer. Over the next two years she faced five legal hearings, which concluded that she was guilty of murder and should be executed. Last month the Indonesian government was reported to have offered to pay blood money of 2.5m riyals (£413,260), a quarter of the sum required to cancel the death penalty. Negotiations are said to be continuing.

Migrant Care, which has campaigned for Satinah's release, said reports that a deal had been struck for her release were premature.

Siti Zaenab

Has been on death row since she was sentenced in 1999. Zaenab was accused of killing her female employer by stabbing her 18 times. She had travelled to Saudi Arabia from south-east Asia a year earlier to work as a maid. She is reported to have twice been saved from execution by the intervention of Indonesian presidents, but remains in custody. Amnesty said she confessed to the murder while suffering mental health problems.

Source: Saudi Arabia's treatment of foreign workers under fire after beheading of Sri Lankan maid | World news | The Observer

 

[pmaitra]

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[vishwaprasad]

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This nation called Saudi Arabia is a shame for this world and humanity. These wild animal like religious lunatics have no hearts and even a pinch of intellect. What they only have are fear,blind devotion and sex fantasies. They keep forcing all their rusted garbage thinking on the woman in their country yet themselves they do the things in other countries which is enough to ashame the word called "shame". That whole nation will burn one day in the curse of poor Rizzana....

 

[vishwaprasad]

Rizana Nafeek: Mother forgives over Saudi beheading

The mother of a Sri Lankan domestic worker beheaded in Saudi Arabia has forgiven those who she says wanted her daughter executed.

Rafeena Nafeek said her daughter, Rizana, was innocent and was wrongfully convicted of killing a baby in 2005.

The Saudi government said that she could not be pardoned because the baby's parents wanted the punishment.

Documents show she was only 17 at the time of the killing and that her execution was a breach of child rights.

Rizana Nafeek's parents came to Colombo from their humble home in eastern Sri Lanka two weeks after the housemaid was executed.

A weeping Mrs Nafeek said she had forgiven the baby's parents who reportedly insisted on her daughter's beheading.

"There's no point in blaming anyone - Rizana has gone," she told the BBC's Azzam Ameen.

"We only got to know [about] her execution from the media. They [the Saudi authorities] should have at least told us about it.

"Even our request to get her body to Sri Lanka was refused."

The executed maid's family waited eight years to know her fate.


Trial 'a farce'
Mrs Nafeek urged other impoverished families not to send their daughters for domestic work in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.
Instead she said that they should educate their children, a wish that Rizana had expressed for her own young siblings before her death.

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that it appears that the maid's passport was falsified to give her age as 23 when she went to Saudi Arabia - other documents said to be genuine show that in fact she was only 17 and therefore a child.

Soon afterwards a baby in her care died in what she said was a choking accident, but the Saudi courts said was strangulation.

Human rights groups said her trial was a farce as she had no translator and no lawyer until after being sentenced.

Mrs Nafeek has publicly rejected compensation money offered by Riyadh, saying she would not accept anything from "the country that killed my child". :thumb:

However on Tuesday the Sri Lankan president handed the family a sum of $7,800 (£4,900) extended by the Foreign Employment Bureau.

Our correspondent says that Mrs Nafeek's wish for other girls not to go abroad may not easily come true - just this week two underage girls from the same area were apprehended trying to go to Saudi Arabia.

The government says that it wants to introduce a new law to increase the age limit to 25.

BBC News - Rizana Nafeek: Mother forgives over Saudi beheading

 

[vishwaprasad]

Sri Lanka has suspended sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia, says ALFEA
Sun, Feb 3, 2013, 08:08 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.


Feb 03, Colombo: An association of foreign employment agents in Sri Lanka says the government has suspended sending local housemaids to Saudi Arabia.

Head of the Association of Licensed Foreign Employment Agencies (ALFEA) W.M.P. Aponso has said that the Sri Lankan government has suspended sending maids to Saudi Arabia until the Saudi Arabian authorities provide a proper insurance scheme to the Sri Lankan employees.

The suspension of sending housemaids to the Kingdom has taken place following the execution of Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek.

However, ALFEA plans to discuss the issue with Foreign Employment Minister Dilan Perera shortly.

Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka has suspended sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia, says ALFEA

 

[vishwaprasad]

BTW poor girl used to EARN in SA jails by making handcraft items. she used to spend that money to send soaps, creams and some dry fruits items to send it to her family, especially for her younger sister and brother...