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The criminal court in the capital Riyadh announced the verdict in the case on Sunday, the ministry said in a press release on Monday.
“The main defendant in the case, housewife Ayesha al-Jizani, has been sentenced by a court to life imprisonment for targeted and intentional murder,” he said.
The court sentenced Basem Salem, head of the family of the other two defendants, to three years and two months in prison. He has been charged with destroying evidence of murder, illegally sending a domestic worker to work outside the home, and failing to provide medical treatment to a domestic worker.
At the same time, he was fined 50,000 Saudi riyals, according to the Expatriate Welfare Ministry.
Another defendant in the case, his son Walid Baseed Salem, was sentenced by a court to seven months in jail at the Juvenile Correctional Center.
Although there was no evidence of their involvement in the murder, the judge said in the order that evidence of non-cooperation was found in various ways.
Shariful Hasan, head of BRAC’s immigration program, said Abiron de Pikegachha from Khulna went to Saudi Arabia in 2016 through a Dhaka-based recruitment agency. He was assassinated on March 24, 2019.
His body was brought into the country on October 24, 2019 through the Wage-Earning Welfare Board with the help of the BRAC immigration program.
He said that Abiran’s death certificate, who was with the body, had Murder written instead of cause of death. The National Human Rights Commission also recommended a committee to investigate the incident and take legal action.
The verdict came about two months after the formal trial began on December 16.
On behalf of Abiran’s family, her sister Reshma Khatun’s husband, SM Ayub Ali, was investigating the case in Saudi Arabia.
“Abiron was tortured from the beginning,” he told reporters in response to the verdict. When the corpse arrived in the country, it was so horrible that it was not worth seeing.
“We are very pleased to have received a satisfactory verdict.”
He thanked everyone, including the government, and demanded a speedy resolution of the case in the country.
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