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Thursday, 03 January 2013 22:57 | Daily Mirror
The Saudi Arabian Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Abdulaziz
bin Abdulrahman Al Jammaz, said that according to information received by
him, Rizana Nafeek presently housed in death row in Saudi Arabia would be
pardoned and could return to the island, in consideration of a request made
to the Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Azeez by Sri Lankan President Mahinda
Rajapaksa, and also having regard to legal considerations.
These views were expressed by the ambassador to SLMC leader and Minister of Justice Rauff Hakeem, when they met today at the latter’s office, Sri Lanka’s Justice Ministry said in a statement. The ambassador was replying to a question posed by the minister, about whether the request of the Sri Lankan President and the various documents submitted could be made use of to obtain the release of Rizana Nafeek. The ambassador had also said that he was aware that the President of Sri Lanka and the government had striven hard to obtain a pardon for Rizana, and stressed that, on the instructions of the Saudi King; the governor of Riyadh Salmon had begun discussions with the relatives of the child who had died at the hands of Rizana. The ambassador had promised to intervene personally in this regard. |
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Rizana likely to be pardoned
