http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=63534&d=10&m=5&y=2005
Tuesday, 10, May, 2005 (01, Rabi` al-Thani, 1426)
Indonesian Embassy Wants Miyati Case Reinvestigated
Maha Akeel, Arab News
JEDDAH, 10 May 2005 - After visiting Nour Miyati at the
hospital, the Indonesian Embassy recommends reinvestigating her case. "I found
her physically better now than when she was first brought to the hospital in
Shumaisi but mentally she seems to be unstable," M. Sukiarto, labor attache at
the Indonesian Embassy, told Arab News.
The investigative committee commissioned by the Riyadh
Municipality came out with its report earlier this week after two months of
investigating the case of Miyati who accused her sponsor and his wife of
torture. In March, Miyati was taken to a Riyadh hospital by her sponsor in
critical condition with severe injuries causing gangrene to her fingers, toes
and part of her right foot. She has had some of her fingers amputated as a
result.
Her case received wide media attention and caused public
outrage. She was transferred to the Riyadh Specialist Hospital for better
medical treatment upon orders from Crown Prince Abdullah. At first she claimed
that her sponsor tied her up for a month in a bathroom and beat her severely
injuring her eyes and knocking several of her teeth out.
In the committee's report, Miyati has retracted her earlier
accusations about being tied up. When Arab News spoke with Sukiarto to comment
on the report, he expressed surprise at the findings especially that the
embassy and the lawyer it hired for Miyati was denied access to her throughout
the investigation.
During the past two days Sukiarto and the lawyer has visited
Miyati at the Specialist Hospital and found her mentally unstable. "She didn't
recognize us even after we introduced ourselves and couldn't remember what she
had for breakfast," said Sukiarto to Arab News. "I think it is necessary to
reinvestigate the case after she fully recovers from her injuries physically
and mentally because her current condition might have caused her to change her
statements," he said.
She is being charged now with making false accusations and
her sponsor and his wife are charged with assault and mistreatment. "I think
her mental condition is the result of her suffering and we should wait until
she recovers before charging her," he said. The lawyer will follow up on the
case in the meantime to ensure fairness.
The National Society for Human Rights, which became involved
with the case from the start, has not seen Miyati yet at the Riyadh Specialist
Hospital.
"We have not visited her yet so I don't know what her current
physical and mental condition is," said Thuraya Abid Sheikh from the NSHR to
Arab News.
"She did not seem to be suffering from any mental problem
when we visited her at Shumaisi and neither does the medical report by the
investigative committee mention anything about that so I don't know why she is
having a problem now," she said when asked about what Sukiarto observed.
"If the Indonesian Embassy wishes us to look into the case
again we will but they haven't contacted us yet," said Sheikh.
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