MR to request for clemency

25 October 2010 02:15 pm

By Gandhya Senanayake

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will request for clemency for Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek who has been sentenced to death for murder of an infant in Saudi Arabia, External Affairs Ministry sources told Daily Mirror online

The “clemency request is currently being processed”   External Affairs Ministry sources said today

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.  (Daily Mirror online)