At least 45 foreign maids on death row in Saudi

Posted by: Khalid Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:28 AM[UAE] - Saudi Arabia

I have no idea where most of these people making their comments from. I am a Saudi business man and I honestly tell the Judgest in Saudi Arabia never deffernciate between Saudi and non Saudi. It is so bad for someone to claim any worng doing by others based on "Apparently, I think, they said".
As far as I know, Judges in Saudi take extreme care for putting a case on the defender even for small thifts. I have several cases agaist Saudis and non-Saudis and always felt so frustrated by the big tolerance of the judges to the defence of the defendent. Most cases were very obvious that the defendent is guilty, but the judge gives so much room for the defendent to escape the penelty.
One non-Saudi who didn't pay his credit told me one day "look, you either wait for me no matter how late I am, or you can go to court and you know when you will get your money then, if any".
I have honestly told the truth in this comment.

Posted by: Thamir Ghaslan Monday, 14 January 2013 6:14 PM[UAE] - Saudi Arabia

Human Rights to migrants workers??? bo ho ho! What about the Saudis human rights to life?

Always trying to paint the Saudis as the vilans and ignoring or minimizing or justifying the crimes of baby murderers.

Posted by: Nirsly Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:24 AM[UAE] - Uae

@Doug

"the rest of the world just has to accept that." what?

You mean like you accept 3,146 people on death row in the USA? 60% of whom are minorities? Or China's record?

You bet a Saudi wouldn't be executed? Wow. So all those Saudis who have been beheaded weren't really Saudis. The several members of the Royal family on Death Row in Saudi aren't really there.

The first thing foreigners ask for in Saudi when a relative experiences violent crime is for Islamic justice to take place against the perpetrator.

Posted by: Doug Monday, 14 January 2013 7:52 PM[UAE] - UAE

No-one is denying the rights of Saudis to life. However, granting foreigners the right to a fair trial does not deprive Saudis of their rights. There are several issues here which are being conflated when they shouldn't be. The first is the issue of the death penalty. That's a red herring; if the penalty for murder in Saudi Arabia is death, then the rest of the world just has to accept that.

The second issue is whether the death penalty should be applied to children, and the third is whether foreigners get a fair trial in Saudi Arabia. The problem is that most people suspect this isn't the case. In fact I am willing to bet that if a 17-year-old Saudi killed a baby foreigner, they would not be facing the death penalty.

Posted by: procan Monday, 14 January 2013 12:19 PM[UAE] - canada

For me this information is educational I believe it helps for westerners to understand the Middle Eastern mind set better.I will not criticize I will simply observe and remember.Although we are the same, we are different in many ways and and always will be.

Posted by: Mohammad H. Al-Dossary Sunday, 13 January 2013 6:50 PM[UAE] - Saudi Arabia

Why the British media and others are making big headlines of this incident? This is Islamic law enforced by the Saudi Government. Anyone who kills another person will be beheaded unless the family of the victim forgives the killer and stop his/her execution, against payment of blood money or even without any compensation. In other words, it is not up to the Saudi Government to waive the death penalty and stop the execution. I remember a Saudi national case in the North of Saudi Arabia where the King had sent a representative to the father of the victim and offered him millions, but it did not work and the killer was executed. Rizana Nafeek is a murderer. She killed the child of her employer in 2005, when she was 23 years old. She is not a juvenile housemaid and she was 30 years old when she was executed.

Posted by: john Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:26 AM[UAE] - UK

Mohammad,

You want to excecute her, fine, do it in a civilized way. A small injection would have been more civilized, not by cutting her head off.

Posted by: Red Snappa Sunday, 13 January 2013 5:53 PM[UAE] - Ireland

Having worked for a good number of years, the figures quoted are just the tip of the iceberg there are many, many foreign prisoners from both northern and southern hemispheres in Saudi jails. Their original individual cases are completely out of sight and forgotten, some governments are simply not prepared to stand up for clemency, at least Sri Lanka tried.

Posted by: Ed B. Tuesday, 15 January 2013 12:34 PM[UAE] - UAE

The statement from Mazen shows the enormous lack of personal social development within Saudi. I'm afraid that today Saudi does not have an environment in place that stimulates social development in individuals. Its very inhuman and stone age like thinking. Its difficult to convince these people; perhaps after 25-50 years they really realise.

Posted by: mama Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:26 AM[UAE] - uae

@ Mazen: I only feel sorry for you, really sorry for you, really ...