Sri Lankan Maid

A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government in Colombo said on today.

Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a Sri Lankan housemaid working in the country was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, an official said today.

A Sri Lankan maid working in Singapore was sentenced to 10 years in jail today for killing an Indian man in 2009.

Sri Lanka has suspended sending maids to work in Saudi Arabia, following an international outcry over the beheading of a young Lankan housemaid in the Kingdom.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay on Friday at the execution of a Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia over the death of an infant in her care.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan maid on Wednesday after she was convicted of murdering her employer's baby, the interior ministry announced, despite calls for a stay of execution.

In a shocking incident, a Sri Lankan housemaid has alleged that her employer in Jordan's capital Amman forced her to swallow six nails with water.D M Chandima, who had gone to Amman a month ago, charged that she was beaten and forced to swallow nails by her employer."I took her to hospital. The doctor who examined her asked us to take some X-rays. ...

Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan woman who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. L G Ariyawathi, who was hospitalised with severe pain after returning on Saturday from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked for punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them i...

In a gruesome incident, a Saudi family has allegedly hammered 23 nails into a Sri Lankan maid's body, a media report said, quoting a senior diplomat in the Lankan Embassy in Riyadh."We have received this complaint from Foreign Ministry in Colombo, who said the maid has been allegedly tortured by her sponsor. We are looking for the sponsor. We were ...

A Saudi Arabian court has commuted the death-by-stoning sentence passed on a Sri Lankan maid convicted of adultery, the government in Colombo said on today.

Colombo has expressed concern to Saudi Arabia after a Sri Lankan housemaid working in the country was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, an official said today.

A Sri Lankan maid working in Singapore was sentenced to 10 years in jail today for killing an Indian man in 2009.

Sri Lanka has suspended sending maids to work in Saudi Arabia, following an international outcry over the beheading of a young Lankan housemaid in the Kingdom.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay on Friday at the execution of a Sri Lankan housemaid in Saudi Arabia over the death of an infant in her care.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan maid on Wednesday after she was convicted of murdering her employer's baby, the interior ministry announced, despite calls for a stay of execution.

In a shocking incident, a Sri Lankan housemaid has alleged that her employer in Jordan's capital Amman forced her to swallow six nails with water.D M Chandima, who had gone to Amman a month ago, charged that she was beaten and forced to swallow nails by her employer."I took her to hospital. The doctor who examined her asked us to take some X-rays. ...

Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan woman who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. L G Ariyawathi, who was hospitalised with severe pain after returning on Saturday from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked for punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them i...

In a gruesome incident, a Saudi family has allegedly hammered 23 nails into a Sri Lankan maid's body, a media report said, quoting a senior diplomat in the Lankan Embassy in Riyadh."We have received this complaint from Foreign Ministry in Colombo, who said the maid has been allegedly tortured by her sponsor. We are looking for the sponsor. We were ...