Britain has condemned the execution of a Sri Lankan domestic worker in Saudi Arabia as “cruel and inhuman”.
Rizana Nafeek, 24, was beheaded for killing a Saudi baby in her care in 2005, after authorities rejected appeals from her home country.
Saudi authorities said she had smothered the four-month-old boy after an argument with the child’s mother, a charge Nafeek has always denied.
The death sentence was condemned by Human Rights Watch as a breach of international codes governing the rights of minors, as Nafeek was 17 at the time of the child’s death.
The Saudi interior ministry confirmed that the execution was carried out, but gave no further details.
Source: Huffingtonpost
