Nafeek Case Back in Dawadmi Court ‘for Clarifications’ - Capital Punishment/Sri Lankan /Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Rasooldeen; 7/4/08
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), the Kingdom’s highest court of appeals, has sent the case of Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan maid who was convicted of killing a four-month-old baby in her care, back to the High Court in Dawadmi for clarifications.The case was sent to the SJC after the Court of Cassation upheld the guilty verdict and the death sentence handed down by a three-member bench, headed by Chief Judge Abdullah Abdulaziz Al-Rosaimi, at the Dawadmi High Court. “I am happy that the case has been sent back to the High Court where the original death sentence was given,” said Khateb Fahad Al-Shammary, Nafeek’s lawyer. He added that the hearing is to take place tomorrow.
