Stop a woman from being stoned to death in Saudi Arabia!

A poor unnamed Sri Lankan housemaid with no powerful government backing her and no other means to save her own life from capital punishment in Saudi Arabia will be stoned to death. Perhaps in the next few days. Only world outrage might save the housemaid.

Death penalty is cruel. Stoning is barbaric. It is slow. It is inhuman. The poor mother-of-three's so-called "crime" was to have had sex with another migrant worker who had been given 100 lashes and set free.

I'm sure that millions of signatures from across the globe would make a difference in the proceedings in this case. Let us get together to save a life! Please sign the petition demanding the release of the Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death by stoning.

In the coming days, a Sri Lankan woman is to be led to an outdoor pit in Saudi Arabia. Her arms and hands will be tightly bound, her body buried up to her breasts. Saudi men will then surround her and begin to hurl rocks at her head to kill her slowly. 


Sri Lanka and other developping countries in the Asia and Africa send housemaids to Saudi Arabia to work as domestic workers. They are rather enslaved and treated as the employing family's private property. These women do not speak arabic nor do they understand the barbaric laws of the Saudi sharia laws. The judicial system is not codified nor it is a modern law system which regulates beheadings and amputations for simply "non-crimes" as in this case.


Knowing all this, the Sri Lankan government is making some efforts to get the housemaid’s sentence lifted or reduced. Legal help has been procured, an appeal filed before the Riyadh Court. But the hour is late. (The exact date of her scheduled execution is unclear; it’s difficult to get clear information from the Saudi courts.) Sri Lanka doesn’t appear to have made interventions at the highest diplomatic levels. It cannot afford to fall out of favor with the Saudi kingdom, one of the Middle Eastern countries on which Sri Lanka is dependent for $2.5 billion in remittances from Sri Lankan domestic workers.


I hope that your signatures will turn the world community's eye to this matter.

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