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January 10, 2013

[b] Outrage over beheading of Sri Lankan woman by Saudi Arabia[/b]

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A young Sri Lankan woman has been executed with a sword in a small, dusty town in Saudi Arabia, thousands of miles from the lush jungles and idyllic beaches of the country where she grew up.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
Authorities executed her Wednesday in Dawadmi, about 200 kilometers west of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
She spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home, who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
Nafeek spent the next seven years in Saudi jails as she was accused, charged, convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of her employers' four-month-old son.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
The family said she had strangled the boy, Kayed bin Nayef bin Jazyan al-Otaibi, after being asked to bottle feed him. Nafeek said the infant accidentally choked on milk.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
She found herself plunged into the unfamiliar, unfriendly and -- according to many human rights advocates -- unfair Saudi legal system.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
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