Maid faces beheading in Saudi Arabia for killing boss who ‘tried to rape her’
March 4th, 2011 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 4 (ANI): Campaigners have took to TV and social networking sites like Facebook to raise half a million dollars to save an Indonesian maid who faces beheading in Saudi Arabia after killing the employer who allegedly tried to rape her.
Darsem binti Dawud Tawar was found guilty of the fatal attack on her Yemeni boss, in 2009.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Kusuma Habir said the victim’s family had agreed to pardon her if she came up with 530,000 dollars-known in Arabic as ‘diyat’ or blood money-by July, reports the Daily Mail.
She said they had already collected 265,000 dollars, through social networking site campaigns, television ads and appeals by local officials. (ANI)
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