Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Parents of Sri Lankan housemaid who is in death row are to visit her today

Chairman of the Bureau of Foreign Employment Kingsley Ranawaka and Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Tissanga Wijeratne have left for Saudi Arabia now with the parents of Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek who is in death row in Saudi Arabia.

The parents are to visit Nafeek in prison today.

Meanwhile Western Province Governor Alevi Mawlana, a Muslim leader of Sri Lanka, is also to leave for Saudi Arabia on November 16th.

The Sri Lankan housemaid who was given death sentence for killing a baby she was looking after there by a Saudi court.

She was an underage by the time the crime she is accused of had committed. However, all attempts so far have failed to seek a pardon for her.
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