Ref: Kalau dianggap mahluk rendah tentu saja gampang dihukum dengan hukuman berat.
http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2013/01/14/16255179/TKW.Indonesia.Terbanyak.Hadapi.Hukuman.Mati.di.Saudi?utm_source=WP&utm_medium=box&utm_campaign=Ktswp TKW Indonesia Terbanyak Hadapi Hukuman Mati di Saudi Senin, 14 Januari 2013 | 16:25 WIB : Daily Mail Siti Zainab dihukum mati di Arab Saudi karena menikam majikan perempuannya hingga tewas pada tahun 1999 Lebih dari 45 pekerja rumah tangga (PRT) asal berbagai negara sedang menunggu eksekusi di Arab Saudi. Pekerja Indonesia disebut sebagai yang terbanyak. Para tahanan yang dihukum mati termasuk seorang PRT yang dihukum karena memukul majikannya hingga tewas saat majikannya itu diduga telah mencoba untuk memperkosanya. Rabu lalu, pihak berwenang Saudi mengabaikan permintaan dunia internasional dan memenggal PRT asal Sri Lanka bernama Rizana Nafeek, 24 tahun. Ia dihukum karena membunuh bayi majikannya meskipun gadis itu menyatakan dirinya tidak bersalah. Kelompok-kelompok hak asasi manusia yakin PRT dari Indonesia merupakan yang terbanyak yang menanti dihukum mati. Selain itu ada warga Sri Lanka, Filipina, India dan Ethiopia. Para aktivis mengatakan, kebanyakan dari 1,5 juta pekerja migran di Arab Saudi, sekitar 375.000 di antaranya warga Sri Lanka, tertarik ke negara itu karena prospek bekerja pada keluarga kaya tetapi mereka justru menghadapi eksploitasi dan pelecehan. Hal itu dapat mencakup kerja keras berbulan-bulan tanpa bayar hingga kekerasan fisik. Mereka mendapat perlindungan hukum yang sangat lemah. Akses mereka terhadap pengacara, penerjemah dan kedutaan sering kali diblokir. Aktivis Human Rights Watch (HRW), Nisha Varia, mengatakan kepada The Observer, "Sistem peradilan Saudi diwarnai penangkapan sewenang-wenang, pengadilan yang tidak adil dan hukuman yang keras. Seorang PRT yang mengalami pelecehan atau eksploitasi dari majikannya mungkin bisa melarikan diri tetapi kemudian dituduh melakukan pencurian. Majikan dapat menuduh PRT, terutama yang berasal dari Indonesia, punya dukun. Korban perkosaan dan pelecehan seksual beresiko untuk dituduh melakukan perzinahan dan percabulan." Kelompok hak asasi manusia mengatakan, 69 orang dieksekusi di Arab Saudi tahun lalu dan 79 orang tahun sebelumnya, termasuk lima perempuan, salah satunya dipenggal karena dituduh punya ilmu ihir dan dukun. Peniliti Amnesty International Arab Saudi, Dina el-Mamoun, mengatakan ada peringatan meningkat terkait jumlah buruh migran yang dijatuhi hukuman mati. Sejauh ini lebih dari 120 warga asing diketahui terancam hukuman mati. Dia mengatakan, para pekerja migran di Arab Saudi beresiko besar jika mereka berakhir di sistem peradilan pidana. Ia menambahkan, negara-negara asal para pekerja harus menasihati warganya tentang 'risiko sangat nyata dan mematikan' itu. Mamoun mengatakan, "Dalam banyak kasus mereka menjalani serangkaian persidangan di mana mereka tidak memahami proses, yang seluruhnya dilakukan dalam bahasa Arab, dan tanpa terjemahan. Mereka sering tidak diberi akses untuk mendapat bantuan konsuler." Tahanan yang dihukum mati dan sedang menunggu eksekusi antara lain Tuti Tursilawati binti Warjuki, 27 tahun, dari Indonesia. Ia menghadapi eksekusi karena membunuh majikannya pada 2010 saat majikannya itu diduga telah mencoba untuk memerkosanya. Pendukung Tuti mengatakan ia disiksa pria itu sejak tiba di negara tersebut setahun sebelumnya. Siti Zainab, juga dari Indonesia, telah dijatuhi hukuman mati setelah dinyatakan bersalah tahun 1999 karena menikam majikan perempuannya sampai tewas. Dia mengaku melakukan pembunuhan namun pihak berwajib tampaknya mengabaikan kekhawatiran soal kesehatan mentalnya. PRT Indonesia yang lain, yaitu Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, 40 tahun, ditangkap tahun 2007 karena membunuh majikan perempuannya. Pemerintah Indonesia siap membayar uang kompensasi senilai Rp 24 miliar yang dituntut keluarga perempuan itu demi menyelamatkan Satinah. Pemerintah Sri Lanka telah menentang eksekusi terhadap Rizana Nafeek ia dipenggal di depan umum pekan lalu. Nafeek dijatuhi hukuman mati tahun 2007. Pada 2005 smajikan prianya menuduh dia mencekik bayi empat bulannya setelah perselisihan dengan ibu anak itu. Keluarganya dan kelompok hak asasi manusia berulang kali meminta kepada Raja Abdullah untuk mengampuni Nafeek, yang menyatakan dirinya tidak bersalah dan mengatakan bayi itu tersedak hingga mati selagi diberi susu botol. Pendukung gadis itu mengatakan usia pada paspor yang gunakannya untuk memasuki negara itu tahun 2005 diubah sehingga dia bisa mendapatkan pekerjaan. Menurut akte kelahirannya, dia berusia 17 tahun ketika bayi itu meninggal. Nafeek mengatakan, ia disiksa agar mengaku dan jasa penerjemahan tidak tersedia baginya. Amnesty mengatakan gadis itu tidak punya akses ke pengacara baik selama interogasi pra-sidang atau pun pada pengadilannya tahun 2007. Philip Luther, direktur program Amnesti untuk Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara, mengatakan sebelum eksekusi, "Tampaknya ia sendiri seorang anak pada saat itu dan ada kekhawatiran yang sangat soal keadilan persidangannya." +++++ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261655/Scores-maids-facing-death-penalty-Saudi-Arabia-crimes-child-murder-killing-employers.html The maids on Saudi Arabia's death row: Scores of foreign women facing execution for child abuse, witchcraft... and killing would-be rapists a.. Human rights groups warn of the 'deadly risks' facing migrant workers b.. Workers lured by wealthy families but face abuse and exploitation c.. Migrants get little legal protection, with no access to lawyers or embassies d.. 'Justice system is characterised by arbitrary arrests and unfair trials' By Alex Gore PUBLISHED: 12:14 GMT, 13 January 2013 | UPDATED: 17:29 GMT, 13 January 2013 Foreign workers are being warned of the 'deadly risks' they face in Saudi Arabia, with more than 45 maids awaiting execution despite growing anger at the country's mistreatment of migrants. The death row prisoners include a domestic worker convicted of beating her employer to death when he allegedly tried to rape her. On Wednesday, authorities in the Middle Eastern country ignored international pleas and beheaded maid Rizana Nafeek, 24, who was convicted of killing a baby despite protesting her innocence. Death row: Siti Zainab has been sentenced to death for stabbing her female employer to death in 1999 Death sentence: Tuti Tursilawati (left) and Satinah Ahmad (bottom right) are awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia Human rights groups believe Indonesians account for the majority of the maids on death row and that there are Sri Lankans, Filipinos, Indians and Ethiopians also facing execution. Campaigners say many of Saudi Arabia's 1.5 million migrant workers, around 375,000 of whom are Sri Lankan, are attracted to the country by the prospect of working for wealthy families but face exploitation and abuse. This can range from months of hard work without pay to physical violence, in a country where legal protections are particularly weak, and access to lawyers, translators and embassies is often blocked. More... a.. Mother of gang rape victim calls for accused to be hanged as she says daughter wished for them to be 'burnt alive' on her death bed b.. 'He can't even comb his hair': Hate preacher Abu Hamza's wife moans about U.S. prison conditions for her husband Human Rights Watch's Nisha Varia told The Observer: 'The Saudi justice system is characterised by arbitrary arrests, unfair trials and harsh punishments. A domestic worker facing abuse or exploitation from her employer might run away and then be accused of theft. Executed: Rizana Nafeek was beheaded on Wednesday despite international appeals for her release 'Employers may accuse domestic workers, especially those from Indonesia, of witchcraft. Victims of rape and sexual assault are at risk of being accused of adultery and fornication.' Human rights group say 69 people were executed in Saudi Arabia last year and 79 the year before, including five women, one of whom was beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery. MISTREATMENT OF MAIDS Saudi Arabia is notorious for its treatment of domestic staff, the majority of who migrate from poverty-stricken countries. Commentators have remarked that Saudis treat staff as if they were part of the furniture - with stories of beatings, rape and imprisonment all too common. In 2010, shocking photographs emerged of maid Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, who suffered severe injuries from being stabbed, burned and beaten. Her employer was sentenced to just three years in jail but was later acquitted altogether, in a case that outraged human rights groups. Speaking at the time, Wahyu Susilo of the Indonesian advocacy group, Migrant Care, said: 'Again and again we hear about slavery-like conditions, torture, sexual abuse and even death. 'But our government has chosen to ignore it. Why? Because migrant workers generate £4.7billion in foreign exchange every Amnesty International Saudi Arabia researcher Dina el-Mamoun said there is growing alarm at the number of migrant workers being sentenced to death, with more than 120 foriegn nationals known to be on death row. She said migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are at great risk if they end up in the criminal justice system and added countries should be advising their residents of the 'very real and deadly' risks. Ms Mamoun said: 'In many cases they're subjected to whole trials where they can't understand the proceedings, which are conducted solely in Arabic, and without translation. They are often not given access to consular assistance.' Death row prisoner Tuti Tursilawati binti Warjuki, 27, from Indonesia, faces execution for murdering her employer in 2010 when he allegedly attempted to rape her. Her supporters say she was abused by the man since arriving in the country a year earlier and was denied legal representation for the first two months of her trial. Siti Zainab, also from Indonesia, has also been sentenced to death after being convicted in 1999 of stabbing her female employer to death. She confessed to the murder but the authorities appear to have dismissed concerns over her mental health. Prisoner Satinah binti Jumadi Ahmad, 40, was arrested in 2007 for killing her female employer. The Indonesian government is prepared to pay some of the £1.6m blood money demanded by the woman's family to save her. Reports of what happened vary from her fighting back after being attacked to the maid having snapped after suffering months of abuse before being accused of stealing. The Sri Lankan government has spoken out against the execution of house maid Rizana Nafeek, from, Sri Lanka, after she was beheaded in public by a sword last week. Miss Nafeek was sentenced to death in 2007 after her Saudi employer accused her of strangling his four-month-old baby two years earlier after a dispute with the child's mother. Wealth: Migrants are attracted to Saudi Arabia, including its capital Riyadh, by the job prospects Her family and human rights groups repeatedly appealed to King Abdullah to pardon Miss Nafeek, who protested her innocence and said the baby had choked to death while being bottle fed. Supporters said the age on the passport she used to enter the country in 2005 was changed so she could get work and that according to her birth certificate she was just 17 when the baby died. Miss Nafeek said her original confession was made under duress and there translation services were not made available to her. Amnesty said she had no access to lawyers either during her pre-trial interrogation or at her 2007 trial. Philip Luther, the organisation's Middle East and North Africa programme director, said before the execution: 'It appears that she was herself a child at the time and there are real concerns about the fairness of her trial.' 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