Death in the Desert

Twenty three Indonesian workers in Saudi Arabia face beheading. Many cases have the same punishment.

June 29, 2011

A PLAIN question was asked repeatedly by Warnah binti Warta Niing to her visitors. “Pak, am I to be beheaded?” she said as quoted by an Indonesian diplomat in Saudi Arabia, Bambang Wishnu Krisnamurthi.

The 25-year-old from Karawang, West Java, is now held in the Malaaz prison, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Along with Sumartini binti Manaungi Galisung, 33, from Sumbawa, she was found guilty by a Saudi court in 2010. They were charged with ‘using m

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