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Human rights groups decry Saudi execution of Nigerian woman

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Kudirat Adesola Afolabi, a mother of two and a widow, was found guilty of smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia and executed Monday, Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.Twenty other Nigerians are facing death sentences for various offenses in Saudi Arabia, the ministry said.Abike Dabiri, senior special assistant to the President on foreign affairs and diaspora, told CNN that Nigeria's ministry has been engaging with Saudi authorities for leniency in these cases but said they are shrouded in secrecy."These trials are done silently, and we are only told of the outcome after the execution," Dabiri said.The Saudi Embassy in Nigeria said that Afolabi, the woman who was executed this week, received legal services throughout her trial and before the death sentence was carried out.The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs regularly communicates with the Nigerian Embassy in Riyadh and the country's Consulate General in Jeddah about their nationals facing trials in the kingdom, the embassy said.Foreign nationals traveling to Saudi Arabia are warned that drug trafficking offenses are punishable by death, the Saudi Embassy in Nigeria said in a statement."The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not neglect the enforcement of penalties in matters of drug trafficking and is determined to apply the law on any person against whom evidence is established in order to combat drug trafficking and protect its citizens from this dangerous menace," the statement said.Amnesty International's Nigeria office called the woman's execution "Read More – Source

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