Senegalese maid in Saudi could face death penalty after murder charge
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DAKAR - Human rights activists on Thursday demanded clemency for a Senegalese maid who was trafficked to Saudi Arabia and may face the death penalty after being charged with killing her employer.
Mbayang Diop, 22, was arrested in June, weeks after arriving in the world's largest oil exporter, and accused of stabbing her employer to death in the capital of Riyadh, rights groups said.
Senegalese civil society groups say Diop may have killed the woman she worked for in self-defence after a dispute, and that the Saudi authorities had not properly investigated the case.
