Yearly Archives: 2013

Saudi slams world reaction to SL maid’s beheading

Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticised world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency SPA reported.   Riyadh "deplores the statements made… over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the …

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Saudi help for Rizana’s family

Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticised world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency SPA reported.   Riyadh "deplores the statements made… over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the …

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Waking up to migrant employment through Rizana Nafeek – Kusal Perera

Much is written on Rizana Nafeek’s extremely unfortunate fate in Saudi Arabia (SA). Some written with anger let loose on the government and some on licensed agencies and every one else who could be dragged in. But to discuss SL migrant labour, one has to leave emotions aside and start off with a factual explanation of what this whole issue …

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Saudi Arabia – Where the Shariah is a Mockery By Asiff Hussein

The execution of young Rizana Nafeek by the Saudi Authorities for no fault of hers once again exposes the sad state of justice in the Kingdom which purports to follow Islamic Shariah. The poor girl, after languishing as many as seven years in jail, without even being given an opportunity to see her destitute parents or siblings she had left …

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Rizana Nafeek – News Column

Rizana Nafeek's letter from Al Dawami Prison – Dailynews.lk On right is a photocopy of the letter written by Rizana Nafeek from Al Dawami Prison in Dawami on January 10, 2007. In this letter she says this is the second statement she is making after she was arrested on murder charges. She said she is 19 years and her date …

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