Bulletin: On the Case of OFW in Death Row in Saudi Arabia

01 March 2019 — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will exhaust all diplomatic avenues and legal remedies to save a Filipina in Saudi Arabia after the Saudi Court of Appeals affirmed her death sentence on Thursday.

The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah said it will continue to assist the Filipina who was sentenced to death in 2017 for murdering her female employer in Makkah three years ago. The Filipina had told the court she killed her employer in self defense.

Consul General Edgar Badajos said the Consulate has been assisting the Filipina since the start of her trial by providing her with a lawyer and sending a representative to attend the hearings. Consul General Badajos, at the same time said the case has been referred to the Department of Justice, which is chair of the Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking (IACAT), for the filing of appropriate charges against the recruiters of the Filipina, who was just a minor when she was first deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2016. END