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    Senegalese maid in Saudi Arabia could face death penalty after murder charge

    DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human rights activists on Thursday demanded clemency for a Senegalese maid who was trafficked to Saudi Arabia and may face the death penalty after being charged with killing her employer.

    Mbayang Diop, 22, was arrested in June, weeks after arriving in the world's largest oil exporter, and accused of stabbing her employer to death in the capital of Riyadh, rights groups said.

    Senegalese civil society groups say Diop may have killed the woman she worked for in self-defence after a dispute, and that the Saudi authorities had not properly investigated the case.

    On Wednesday, the Senegalese ambassador to Saudi Arabia visited Diop in prison in the eastern city of Dammam to provide assistance, Senegal's foreign ministry said in a statement.

    The Saudi embassy in Dakar was not immediately available to comment on the case.

    Diop left Dakar without telling her family, having been approached and offered work as a maid, said her brother, Fallou.

    "If she had consulted us, we would have told her not to go," he said, explaining how other women from their neighbourhood in Dakar had also moved to Saudi Arabia with the promise of work.

    "She said she couldn't rest - that the work was very hard."

    Diop, who is in jail awaiting trial, is one of a growing number of Senegalese women heading to the Middle East for domestic work, lured by the prospect of a salary and a chance to escape joblessness at home, according to Amnesty International.

    But many have their passports confiscated by their employers and face abuse, said Amnesty's regional director Alioune Tine.

    "These women are of victims of violence and rape ... they are at the mercy of their employer, they are the property of their employer," Tine told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

    "They are the victims of a system of modern slavery."

    CRACKDOWN

    Diop has not yet seen a lawyer, appeared in court or entered a plea to the charge of murder, which is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, said Bara Gaye, the mayor of Yeumbeul, a suburb on the outskirts of Dakar that is home to Diop's family.

    Senegal's foreign minister Mankeur Ndiaye described Diop last week as "a victim like many others", and said the West African nation's government would crack down on traffickers.

    Traditionally, domestic workers in the Gulf have come from Asia but the number of African migrants is increasing, driven by the lack of opportunities at home, human rights activists say.

    Women are often trafficked to Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest employers of domestic workers, and forced into domestic servitude, said the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which grades countries on their anti-slavery efforts.

    Civil society groups and protesters this week gathered in central Dakar to demand clemency for Diop.

    Boubacar Seye, head of migrant rights group Horizon Sans Frontieres, called for an investigation into the case, saying none had taken place so far.

    "Everyone knows the conditions these women live in - they're like slaves," said Iba Sarr of the human rights group Raddho, urging the Senegalese authorities to pursue the case.

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    Lankan maid on death row deported after govt. intervention

    RIYADH: A Sri Lankan woman, who received the death sentence after being convicted of adultery in Saudi Arabia, has been deported home on completion of her jail term in Dawadmi, some 400 km from the capital of Riyadh.

    Confirming the release and her subsequent deportation, Sri Lankan Embassy sources in Riyadh said the maid was originally sentenced to death for adultery, but the sentence was later reduced to three years in jail by a Court of Appeals in Dawadmi.

    The married woman, in her 40s, was working as a maid in a Saudi household before she was sentenced to death in August after being found guilty of having an illicit affair with a Sri Lankan bachelor.

    Her paramour, who was convicted alongside her, was sentenced to 100 lashes.

    As a result of the Sri Lanka government’s intervention, pleading sympathetic consideration in the case, the Saudi government commuted the death sentence and imposed a jail term of three years.

    “At the time she was imprisoned, she had already spent one-and-a-half years in jail. Therefore, she had to serve another one-and-a-half years. Her term of imprisonment ended in June this year. We will make all arrangements to bring her back to the country after the completion of her sentence,” SLBFE spokesman Upul Deshapriya told Arab News from Colombo.

    Deshapriya said Foreign Employment Minister Thalatha Athukorala made the appeal on instructions from the minister. The Colombo government, through its embassy in Riyadh, lodged its appeal to save the maid from her death sentence by hiring a lawyer.

    http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2016/08/29/local/91686
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    Warrant Here https://twitter.com/ali_adubisi/stat...10078534328320

    Translation of tweet: Saudi Arabia returns to performing executions in public on Tuesday 9am according to a letter (top secret/urgent and important) with an accused in a drugs case after it (execution) was performed in prison.

    Execution Warrant Casts Light On Saudi Death Penalty

    An execution warrant in Saudi Arabia was published to social media on Tuesday, providing a rare insight into how the death penalty is implemented in the secretive kingdom.

    The warrant, posted to Twitter, ordered an unnamed prisoner to be executed in “Retribution Square” in the northern town of Qurayyat at 9am (0700 GMT).

    The order was signed by the local police chief Mufdhi bin Abdallah al-Khamees and it instructed the Qurayyat General Hospital to “carry out the necessary procedure upon receipt of the prisoner’s corpse” after the execution had taken place.

    A doctor was also ordered to be present at the execution, which in Saudi Arabia is typically a public beheading carried out by a masked executioner with one blow to the neck with a long curved silver sword.

    The doctor was required to attend the beheading to confirm the prisoner’s death.

    British human rights group Reprieve said they had information the execution was carried on Tuesday as ordered.

    Reprieve said the publishing of the execution warrant exposed the nature of human rights abuses in the kingdom.

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    This was published on the Israel Video Network yesterday. It could be propaganda.

    Woman Beheaded In Broad Daylight in ‘Moderate’ Muslim Nation While Police Watch

    In this graphic video taken in Saudi Arabia near the city of Mecca, a woman is punished for having committed what her husband alleges is the murder of his 7-year-old daughter.

    The convicted woman is led out before a crowd in broad daylight and beheaded in the middle of a lot.

    It is unknown whether or not she was afforded due process during her defense, but the Saudi justice system is typically discriminatory against female defendants.

    Are these savages people that can be reasoned with?

    Evil of this sort needs to be eradicated. Not just the head of the snake, but the ideology that fosters this kind of actions.

    If moderate Muslim nations don’t get their act together, they will also descend into the Dark Ages.

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    It's not propaganda Heidi, it's real. However the video is at least several years old, and can be found on many other websites.
    SA has a terrible record when it comes to the death penalty, for example, women can be stoned to death for adultery.
    Under islamic law, when a woman is raped, she needs 3 male witnessess who confirm the rape when she reports it to the police.
    If she is not able to bring 3 witnessess, the police considers the rape complaint to be adultery committed by the female and as a result she can be sentenced to death after having been raped. It's a scandalous system and it explains why there are so few rapes reported in SA.

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    I have not seen that one before. The beheading videos I can remember seeing have all been from a distance.
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    It was uploaded on Liveleak.com August 25 2015

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    If I had thought it was a new execution I would have posted the video on the Saudi Arabia 2017 Executions thread. I have never seen the video before so I posted it stating that it was posted yesterday on the Israel Video Network. I am well aware of what to post and where to post it on my own website.
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    A Saudi man has been sentenced to death after insulting the prophet Muhammad on Twitter

    The Saudi religious police had gotten word of Ahmad Al-Shamri's tweets and went to his door sometime in 2014.

    He was accused of using social media to say disparaging things about Islam and the prophet Muhammad, according to activists. The charge: apostasy, a crime punishable by death.

    But activists with Human Rights Watch say Al-Shamri probably was mentally unstable. The biggest sign was the crime he was accused of: He was tweeting such thoughts in a country where public statements such as that could mean a death sentence.

    Al-Shamri pleaded insanity, saying that he has a mental disorder and that he was drunk, high and in an altered mental state when he made the comments, said Hala Dosari, who is on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch, which investigates human rights abuses. Dosari has been trying to get information about Al-Shamri's case since 2014.

    She told The Washington Post that his trial focused heavily on Koranic law and little on any mitigating mental illness. As a result, Al-Shamri has been sentenced to death for being an atheist.

    His case provides a glimpse into the Saudi Arabian judicial system, which routinely tries to hide capital trials and death sentences from the outside world, activists say.

    What is known is that there has been a surge in death sentences since 2014. More than 400 people have been put to death since then, according to a report by Amnesty International.

    “The conservative religious folks have full control of the justice system,” said Adam Coogle of Human Rights Watch.

    “Judges come from religious seminaries in Saudi Arabia. They see themselves as preservers of Saudi Arabia’s character as an Islamic state,” he said. “And they come down hard on people who step out of line.”

    Most of the sentences are based on Koranic law, not a penal code, and Coogle said judges and prosecutors have almost unlimited leeway “not only to decide cases, but what constitutes a criminal offense in the first place. Sometimes it is just a description of your behavior.”

    A spokesman with the Saudi Arabian embassy did not immediately return a Washington Post message seeking comment.

    Saudi Arabia executed at least 154 people in 2016, although activists think the number is higher. The country ranked third in 2016 in executions, according to Amnesty International's report. Condemned people in Saudi Arabia are killed by beheading and shooting. And Amnesty International has grouped the country with those where people can receive the ultimate punishment for crimes other than murder. Death sentences, the report says, can be based on “confessions” extracted through torture.

    “A large number of these executions were not imposed for the most serious crimes but for offences such as nonviolent drug-related crimes which are not even mandatorily punishable by death according to the authorities’ interpretation of Islamic Shari’a law,” according to the report.

    Among those killed by the state last year was Sheik Nimr Baqr al-Nimr. Most of the people killed on Jan 2 — 47 in all, some by beheading and others by firing squad — were Sunni Muslims accused of terrorism.

    But Nimr was a Shiite put to death for political activism, according to The Post's Liz Sly. He led some of the Arab Spring-inspired protests that roiled the country in 2011.

    The State Department “raised concerns at the highest levels of the Saudi government about the judicial process,” Sly reported. And there were international calls demanding clemency and calling the execution a human rights violation that targeted a “peaceful expression of dissent.”

    Amnesty International had serious misgivings about his trial and treatment:

    “The trial proceedings contravened international fair trial standards. The authorities did not inform his family before he was executed. They refused to return his body for burial, despite the family’s numerous requests, thereby compounding their suffering.”

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    Saudi Arabia: A Saudi national has been sentenced to death for attacking police patrols with a gun and shooting with the intent to kill, taking part in rallies and riots against the government, harboring a wanted fugitive, and purchasing and using a gun illegally. There were also other charges against him. According to Saudi law, two other higher courts will have to review the death sentence before it can be carried out. Most executions are done by beheading with a sword.

    https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.co...-shooting.html
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