President to send appeal on behalf of Rizana to Saudi king
October 25, 2010 11:37 pm
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to send an appeal on Tuesday
to the King of Saudi Arabia for an amnesty for Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek
who has been sentenced to death for killing a Saudi infant in 2005, said
sources from the External Affairs Ministry in
The Riyadh Supreme Court has endorsed the death sentence imposed on Nafeek. A three-member panel of judges from the Dawadami High Court headed by Chief Justice Abdullah Al-Rosaimi found Rizana Nafeek guilty of murdering the four-month-old son of Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi and sentenced her to death on June 16, 2007.
The court heard that Nafeek killed the child after she was asked to bottle-feed him by the sponsor’s wife.
