MR sends clemency letter

26 October 2010 04:18 am

President Mahinda Rajapaksa dispatched a letter early this morning requesting clemency from the Saudi Arabian Government for Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek, the President’s Office told Daily Mirror.

Rizana was sentenced to death for the murder of an infant in Saudi Arabia.
 
The government has taken up the matter of the Rizana Nafeek to a diplomatic level after the Supreme Court in Riyadh endorsed the death sentence given to the teenage maid.

The teenage Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek was Indicted and found guilty of alleged death of an infant while bottle feeding in 2005.