The families of the two female Filipino workers who were meted the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait just recently, are hoping that their loved ones would be spared of the death sentence. The cases which was deliberated under the strict Islamic Law, was approved with finality by the high court of the two Gulf neighbors. The relatives were exasperated about the fate of their kin because, according to them, the Philippine government failed to do their part in saving the two from the harsh penalty of death.
Based on the statistics provided by some militant groups, cases of death penalty handed down on a number of Filipinos imprisoned in the Middle East have risen in the past years. Some of them are on appeal others were already executed and their remains were prevented to be repatriated to the Philippines because Islamic Law says so.
The case of the two women could be added to the long list of Overseas Filipino Workers who left their families in the Philippines only to face death in the gallows. Sadly, one of them was accused in court with trumped up charges. The woman, who was accused of murder, wrote a letter to her father and she denied the charges hurled against her and described all the details that she had gone through.
But that was all she can do, neither her father could offer help because their family are poor. With no support from the government, the woman’s fate has already reached the point of no return and she and the other will be facing death in the gallows.