The petition
Rizana Nafeek, 19, is currently at risk of execution for a crime she is alleged to have committed when she was 17 years old and a minor under International Law. She was arrested in 2005 – age 17 – over the death of an infant that was in her care. She had no access to any legal representation at either her interrogation or her trial.
Saudi Arabia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which prohibits the execution of offenders for crimes committed when they were under 18 years old. The execution of Rizana Nafeek would contravene international law.
According to Amnesty International, at least 158 people were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2007 and the death sentence “is applied for a wide range of offences and court proceedings fall far short of international standards for fair trial, and take place behind closed doors.”
We, the undersigned, respectfully call on His Royal Highness Prince Naif bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Al-Saud, Minister of the Interior, to undertake whatever action necessary to commute Rizana Nafeek’s death sentence and to take steps to abolishing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia altogether.
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