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57466
Sat, 04/25/2009 - 18:10
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FOURTEEN INDONESIANS FACING DEATH SENTENCE OR EXCECUTION IN S ARABIA
Surabaya, Indonesia, Apr 25 (ANTARA) - A total of 14 Indonesians are currently languishing in Saudi Arabian jails waiting to be executed or sentenced to death for murder, a visiting Indonesian diplomat stationed in Jeddah said.
"Right now, they are being held in a number of Saudi Arabian jails and under threat of being sentenced to death or executed," Gatot Abdullah Manshur, Indonesian consul general in Jeddah, said here on Saturday.
Five of the 14 prisoners are women, said Manshur on the sidelines of a gathering to inform the public about the foreign affairs ministry's role in protecting the wellbeing of Indonesian citizens abroad.
He said Indonesian diplomatic representative offices in Saudi Arabia were doing their best to prevent the 14 Indonesians from being actually sentenced to death or, in cases where they had already been convicted, to have their death sentences commuted.
About why so many Indonesians were in trouble with the law in Saudi Arabia, Manshur said many Indonesians whose stay permits had expired tended to resort to criminal acts which sometimes led to the victims' death.
He said, in 2008 alone, the Saudi authorities deported a total of 24,020 Indonesians whose stay permits had expired. In 2007, the figure was 24,834.
The deportees consisted of migrant workers, people who had made the minor hajj pilgrimage and children. ***
"Right now, they are being held in a number of Saudi Arabian jails and under threat of being sentenced to death or executed," Gatot Abdullah Manshur, Indonesian consul general in Jeddah, said here on Saturday.
Five of the 14 prisoners are women, said Manshur on the sidelines of a gathering to inform the public about the foreign affairs ministry's role in protecting the wellbeing of Indonesian citizens abroad.
He said Indonesian diplomatic representative offices in Saudi Arabia were doing their best to prevent the 14 Indonesians from being actually sentenced to death or, in cases where they had already been convicted, to have their death sentences commuted.
About why so many Indonesians were in trouble with the law in Saudi Arabia, Manshur said many Indonesians whose stay permits had expired tended to resort to criminal acts which sometimes led to the victims' death.
He said, in 2008 alone, the Saudi authorities deported a total of 24,020 Indonesians whose stay permits had expired. In 2007, the figure was 24,834.
The deportees consisted of migrant workers, people who had made the minor hajj pilgrimage and children. ***
