Saudi Courts decides to stone mother of two ....
because of illicit affair
Riyadh Courts in Saudi Arabia has ordered that a Sri Lankan woman who has gone to Saudi Arabia as a house-maid was found guilty of sexual intimacy and
that she be stoned to death. The said woman was a resident of Maradana and a mother of 2 children and she had gone to work as a house-maid in Saudi a few years before.She had got involved with another Sri Lankan youth employed in Saudi and she had admitted guilty to that offence in courts of that country. It was for that reason that it was decided to stone her to death according to Saudi Law. It is understood that the young man concerned too has been subjected by Saudi Courts to 100 lashes. It was reported that Minister of Foreign Employment Mrs. Thalatha Athukorala has made an appeal to Saudi Government to abate the punishment sentenced to her. Prior to this the Saudi Government had decided to take the life of the child Rizana Nafeek and the Sri Lankan Government was not successful in preventing the sentence until she was prosecuted in a similar manner.