November 30, 2015 , , , ,
The Foreign Employment Bureau has hired lawyers and appealed against the case in which a Sri Lankan domestic worker being sentenced to death by stoning after she admitted committing adultery while working in Saudi Arabia.

An official from Foreign Employment Bureau said the married 45-year-old woman who was working as a maid in Riyadh since 2013 was convicted of adultery by a Saudi court in August.

Her partner, also a Sri Lankan migrant worker, was given a lesser punishment of 100 lashes on account of being single.

“She has accepted the crime four times in the courts. But the Foreign Employment Bureau has hired lawyers and have appealed against the case,” Upul Deshapriya, spokesman for the Foreign Employment Bureau, told Reuters.

“The appeal is going on. Also from the foreign ministry side, they are in negotiation with the Saudi government on a diplomatic level.”