January, 2013

• 17 January

  Digging for Water, But Striking Oil By Thalif Deen

  

  Children like this boy in Gaza face the worst of water scarcity. Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPS   ABU DHABI, Jan 16 2013 (IPS) – The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil.   But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the …

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• 16 January

  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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• 16 January

  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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• 16 January

  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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• 16 January

  Maid’s execution: KSA won’t allow any foreign interference – Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News

  

  Demonstrators show an image of Rizana Nafeek during a protest in Colombo on January 11, 2013, against her execution. (Reuters) The Kingdom said yesterday that the execution of Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan maid who was convicted of killing a baby in her care in 2005, was carried out according to the laws of the land and statements made by …

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• 13 January

  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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• 11 January

  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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