{"id":31252,"date":"2019-01-31T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31252"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:23:09","slug":"filipina-domestic-worker-executed-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31252","title":{"rendered":"Filipina domestic worker executed in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.5018726592\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A Filipina maid was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/death-penalty.html\">executed<\/a> in Saudi Arabia after being found guilty of murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The 39-year-old was put to death on Tuesday and her family was notified the following day, said Elmer Cato from the Philippines d<span>epartment of foreign affairs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The department regrets that it was not able to save the life of the Filipina,&#8221; Cato was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/01\/31\/19\/saudi-arabi-executes-pinay-found-guilty-of-murder\">quoted <\/a><span>as saying by ABS-CBN news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The department declined to provide further information about the executed woman or details about the murder she was convicted of, saying her family had requested privacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Saudi Arabia is ranked among the top five executioners in the world. In 2018, the Gulf kingdom executed 143 people, according to the European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most capital crimes are punished by beheading, but in extreme cases convicts face &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2013\/05\/20135220350958777.html\">crucifixion<\/a>&#8220;, <span>which the government says is sanctioned by Islamic law<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Cato said the Philippine government provided the woman with a lawyer during her trial and sent representatives to visit her who later gave her family regular updates.<\/p>\n<p>While some Filipinos have been saved from a death sentence in Saudi Arabia by paying cash to families of those they allegedly killed, the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council ruled so-called &#8220;blood money&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t apply in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations for Filipinos seeking work abroad with at least one million workers employed there &#8211; most in the household service and construction sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span>Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia&#8217;s strict version of Islamic law.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipina maid was\u00a0executed in Saudi Arabia after being found guilty of murder. The 39-year-old was put to death on Tuesday and her family was notified the following day, said Elmer Cato from the Philippines department of foreign affairs.\u00a0 &#8220;The department regrets that it was not able to save the life of the Filipina,&#8221; Cato&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}