25.2.2008
Prince
Khaled Bin Sultan, Deputy Minister of Defense has agreed
to mediate to get Rizana Nafeek released from her death
sentence. Rizana was convicted of killing a Saudi baby
under her care and was sentenced to death by a court in
Dawadmi on June 16th, 2007.
The
Saudi Deputy Minister has made this pledge when he met
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama
in Singapore when the two ministers visited ‘Singapore
Airshow 2008.’
Rizana,
who was below the eligible working age when she arrived
in the Saudi Arabia to work as a maid, had her birth date
on her passport falsified by the recruiting agent.
Prince
Khaled assured Minister Bogollagama of the Saudi government's
support and indicated that he would get Saudi authorities
to persuade the victim's family to offer clemency. However,
the matter of granting clemency ultimately lay with the
victim's family he added
Courtesy - Lanka
Truth