Labor exporters seek for Nasiroh's release
Labor exporters seek for Nasiroh's release
JAKARTA (JP): The association of Indonesian labor export
companies, Apjati, will seek leniency from the Saudi Arabian
government to release Indonesian worker Nasiroh, convicted of
murder, in the upcoming Ramadhan fasting month.
Chairman of the association Rusdi Bahasuan said yesterday the
request was extended because the kingdom used to grant mercy and
remission to prisoners in the Moslem holy month.
According to the lunar calendar, Ramadhan will start in late
December.
"We all have to try and pray (for her release). Hopefully we
will succeed," Rusdi told Antara after receiving a honorary medal
from the Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief. Rusdi had just
arrived from Saudi Arabia.
"If our request is approved, Nasiroh will hopefully be able to
celebrate Idul Fitri holiday at home," Rusdi added.
The medal was awarded to those who helped Nasiroh escape the
death penalty. Waleed Al Swaidan, chairman of the committee for
foreign labor recruitment in Saudi, also received a medal.
Nasiroh of Cianjur, West Java, was sentenced to death in 1993
after she admitted to having killed her employer Saleh Al Senedi.
She had her death penalty reduced to five years of imprisonment
on Oct. 29 after one of Senedi's wives decided to forgive her.
The milder sentence means that 26-year-old Nasiroh will leave
Gassim City penitentiary in September next year.
Swaidan said the court ruled Nasiroh was guilty because she
confessed three times to murdering Senedi, although four fellow
employees testified she had not.
Latief said Tuesday that Nasiroh told her visiting brother
Abdul Majid that she admitted to the murder, but it was actually
her Bangladeshi boyfriend who killed Senedi after learning that
Nasiroh's employer had sexually harassed her several times.
Nasiroh's case led to a public outcry and pressured the
government to seek every means to save her. In September, another
Indonesian worker in Saudi, Soleha Kadiran, was executed after
being found guilty of killing her employer. (amd)
JAKARTA (JP): The association of Indonesian labor export
companies, Apjati, will seek leniency from the Saudi Arabian
government to release Indonesian worker Nasiroh, convicted of
murder, in the upcoming Ramadhan fasting month.
Chairman of the association Rusdi Bahasuan said yesterday the
request was extended because the kingdom used to grant mercy and
remission to prisoners in the Moslem holy month.
According to the lunar calendar, Ramadhan will start in late
December.
"We all have to try and pray (for her release). Hopefully we
will succeed," Rusdi told Antara after receiving a honorary medal
from the Minister of Manpower Abdul Latief. Rusdi had just
arrived from Saudi Arabia.
"If our request is approved, Nasiroh will hopefully be able to
celebrate Idul Fitri holiday at home," Rusdi added.
The medal was awarded to those who helped Nasiroh escape the
death penalty. Waleed Al Swaidan, chairman of the committee for
foreign labor recruitment in Saudi, also received a medal.
Nasiroh of Cianjur, West Java, was sentenced to death in 1993
after she admitted to having killed her employer Saleh Al Senedi.
She had her death penalty reduced to five years of imprisonment
on Oct. 29 after one of Senedi's wives decided to forgive her.
The milder sentence means that 26-year-old Nasiroh will leave
Gassim City penitentiary in September next year.
Swaidan said the court ruled Nasiroh was guilty because she
confessed three times to murdering Senedi, although four fellow
employees testified she had not.
Latief said Tuesday that Nasiroh told her visiting brother
Abdul Majid that she admitted to the murder, but it was actually
her Bangladeshi boyfriend who killed Senedi after learning that
Nasiroh's employer had sexually harassed her several times.
Nasiroh's case led to a public outcry and pressured the
government to seek every means to save her. In September, another
Indonesian worker in Saudi, Soleha Kadiran, was executed after
being found guilty of killing her employer. (amd)