Death Sentence Looms Over Sri Lankan Teen Migrant

Here's more information on the process of Rizana Nafeek's appeal of the Saudi death sentence. This article also looks at the overall deplorable, sub human conditions of many female immigrant workers in Saudi Arabia.
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"A Sri Lankan activist who is in touch with Nafeek's parents and lawyer says that if the appeal is rejected "no one will be informed but the prisoner who is in the death row. In this case Rizana will be informed three days before the beheading. Neither the embassy nor the parents nor the lawyers will be informed.""
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Sexual abuse is common among migrant domestic workers.
Human Rights Watch testimonies describe women who say they were repeatedly raped by employers but when they tried to escape they were returned by the police.
One worker, Amanthi K., told Human Rights Watch that Saudi authorities arrested her at the hospital after she gave birth to a child. Because she could not prove that her employer had raped her, she was considered to have participated in an act of fornication, which is punishable by criminal law.
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The Author, Shahnaz Habib is a Muslim woman who has not been circumcised, forced to wear a hijab or denied an education. She writes fiction, literary nonfiction, criticism and poetry, and lives in a state of flux, approximately located in Brooklyn, N.Y.
FROM WOMENSENEWS.ORG
Death Sentence Looms Over Sri Lankan Teen Migrant
Run Date: 12/21/07
By Shahnaz Habib
WeNews correspondent
Sri Lankan women who migrate to work as maids and domestic servants in Saudi Arabia suffer widespread abuse, rights activists say. One of them, 19-year-old Rizana Nafeek, is appealing a beheading sentence after a child in her care died.

(WOMENSENEWS)--Her legal appeal has been filed, but a trial date has not been set.
The uncertain status of the appeal--funded by human rights groups including the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission--is a matter of life and death for 19-year-old Rizana Nafeek, a migrant worker from Sri Lanka sentenced by a Saudi court to beheading on June 16.
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