As Teen Girl Awaits Death, Saudi Surge in Beheadings Could Set Record High

***Warning*** Parts of this story are graphic. The entire story is sickening.

"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year old housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded.

The Sri Lankan government says it is working for a reprieve, and has until Monday to file the plea. A last-minute pardon by the infant's parents could also spare her. But if her execution goes ahead, it will be the latest in a surge of beheadings that could surpass the kingdom's record of 191 in 2005.

After dropping to 38 last year, the figure for 2007 is already at least 102, including three women, according to Amnesty International.

Beheading has always been the punishment meted out to murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and armed robbers in Saudi Arabia. Whether what Nafeek did amounts to murder has never been spelled out by courts or other officials, but Saudi authorities, facing sustained criticism from foreign human rights groups, insist they are simply enforcing God's law..."

More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289317,00.html

......"The Saudi authorities are flouting an international prohibition on the execution of child offenders by even imposing a death sentence on a defendant who was reportedly 17 at the time of the alleged crime," she said.

Nafeek arrived in the kingdom on May 4, 2005 to work as a housemaid. She was given the additional duty of looking after the baby boy, a job the Sri Lankan Embassy says she was not trained to do. The embassy says the infant died on May 22 while she was bottle-feeding him.

Nafeek allegedly confessed, according to the statement, but then recanted, saying her admission was obtained under duress.

The Asian Human Rights Commission, an independent Hong Kong-based body of jurists and human rights activists, said it was an accident. The child was choking, it said, and Nafeek "was desperately trying to help by way of soothing and stroking the chest, face and neck of the baby." However, it said, "due to misunderstandings this case was presented as the murder of a baby by strangulation."

Fucking savages.

I've never understood the hypocrisy of going after Iran, Iraq and other nations when we're in bed with one of the worst of them all...Saudi Arabia.

Serial killer, too, if you count the Texas executions (and why not?).

Go after all those other nations and ignore an ally that's just as bad, if not worse, than those countries.

some God that must be. How can anybody actually believe that a God would want something like this? It's sickening beyond belief that this kind of idiocy still exists. I don't mean just in the Middle East either, we have assholes in this country spouting off like this every time they stick a needle in someones arm at a State prison.

That is the difference.

Of course, when you're finally dead, the method does not really matter!

Still, I suppose that if the criminal in question was a child killer/rapist, public reaction to this execution would be somehow different.

Saudi Ambassador escorted out of the country by immigration officials.

Saudi Embassy to be auctioned off next week.

American Enterprise Institute expresses "concern"

OUTLAWED on ALL continents!!

:hi:

Just so you know. :-)

I hate to think that, if Saudi Arabia were an enemy of America, there would probably be people on this thread calling this story pro-war propaganda.