by Mohammed Naalir
“ We have not received any communication from our daughter, said Muhammad Nafeek, father of Rizana, the Sri Lankan domestic aid who have been sentenced to death by Saudi Arabian court. Rizana went to Saudi Arabia as house maid via a foreign employment agency in Colombo six years before on fake birth certificate while she was 14 years old. Rizana had contracted her parents when her death penalty was postponed in November last year. Rizana’s only brother studying for the G.C,E, (O/L) examination while the two sisters are in grade 10 and 8. The mother pleaded that her daughter Rizana be pardoned and released soon. The nineteen year old Sri Lankan Rizana Nafeek of Muttur was entenced to death by Saudi Court in February 2005 for strangling a four-month old baby to death while bottle feeding.