Migrant worker Abiron's killing: Saudi court sentences employer to death

A court in Saudi Arabia on Sunday sentenced Bangladeshi migrant worker Abiron Begum's employer Ayesha al-Jizani to death in a case over the former's killing.

Besides, the criminal court in Riyadh sentenced Abiron's other employer and Ayesha's husband Basem Salem to three years and two months in jail with a fine of Saudi riyal 50,000 in connection with the killing, said a press release of expatriates' welfare ministry today.

Furthermore, the court ordered to send the employers' son Walid Basem Salem to a juvenile correction centre for seven months, the release said.

Abiron Begum, who went to Saudi Arabia in 2017, was tortured allegedly at her employers' house and she died on March 24, 2019.

Her body was kept in a mortuary there for seven months before being sent to Bangladesh.