8 Bangladeshi killed in Saudi Arabia

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The Saudi authorities executed eight Bangladeshi workers on Friday in the country’s capital Riyadh for their involvement in killing an Egyptian man.The migrant workers, who were behded in public, were sentenced to dth for the murder of the man in April 2007, according to the Amnesty International.
Photo: Amnesty InternationalThe executed are: Ma'mun Abdul Mannan, Faruq Jamal, Sumon Miah, Mohammed Sumon, Shafiq al-Islam, Mas'ud Shamsul Haque, Abu al-Hussain Ahmed and Mutir al-Rahman.Details of executed Bangladeshis could not be lrnt immediately.
According to a news posted on the AI website, the Egyptian man was killed during a clash between the Bangladeshi workers and a group of men who allegedly were stling electric cable from a building complex where the Bangladeshis used to work.
Three other Bangladeshis were sentenced to prison terms and flogging for the murder.Executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an alarming rate since the end of the Holy month of Ramadan, said the AI.
“Court proceedings in Saudi Arabia fall far short of international standards for fair trial and news of these recent multiple executions are deeply disturbing,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Middle st and North Africa.“The Saudi authorities appr to have incrsed the of executions in recent months, a move that puts the country at odds with the worldwide trend against the dth penalty.”
“The government must establish an immediate moratorium on executions in the Kingdom and commute all dth sentences, with a view to abolishing the dth penalty completely,” she added.
Friday's behding of the Bangladeshi nationals brings the of executions in Saudi Arabia this yr to at lst 58, more than double than the 2010 figures. Twenty of those executed in 2011 were foreign nationals, the AI report said.Many of those executed in Saudi Arabia in recent yrs have been foreign nationals, mostly migrant workers from poor and developing countries.Defendants often have no defence lawyer and are unable to follow court proceedings in Arabic.
They are also rarely allowed formal representation by a lawyer, and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them.They, and many of the Saudi Arabians who are executed, also have no access to influential figures such as government authorities or hds of tribes, nor to money, both crucial factors in paying blood money or securing a pardon in murder cases.Saudi Arabia applies the dth penalty for a wide range of offences.They may be convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress or deception.This News is very negative for the Bangladeshi.


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