Clemency for Umesh Yadav

  30^th November 2011

His Majesty King 'Abdullah Bin 'Abdul 'Aziz Al-Saudi, The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty the King
Royal Court, Riyadh
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fax: +966 1 403 1185

Your Majesty Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud,

As Salam alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu

Re:  Clemency for Umesh Yadav

I am writing to request that you act urgently to prevent the imminent execution of Umesh Yadav, a Nepali migrant worker convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court.

I am informed that Umesh Yadav, a Nepali migrant worker convicted of murder of a Pakistani citizen Mohammad Latish Wasir, who was accidentally killed by Yadav in 2006.

 

Your Excellency, Yadav,  who came  from Machijhitakaiya village of Dhanusha district of Nepal , had reached Saudi Arabia five years ago. Less than two months after reaching the kingdom, Yadav unfortunately engaged in a brawl with Wasir. Yadav  is a very poor man , he has a wife, Sanju Devi Yadav, and two sons, Kamalesh and Nitesh, at home. Yadav confirmed that he did not kill Wasir intentionally, it was an accident.

 

 I am informed that the Nepali embassy in Riyadh has also asked the kingdom to put off the execution of the verdict for the time being. I am informed by the Nepali government officials that the Nepali embassy in Riyadh has officially asked the kingdom to not announce the date of execution of the death sentence until it succeeds or fails in persuading the relatives of the victim into granting pardon to Yadav in exchange for blood money.

 

Your Excellency , I am also informed by the Nepali embassy in Riyadh that they had requested the Pakistani embassy to find out the kin of Wasir and talk them into pardoning Yadav by accepting a certain amount of blood money.

 

Upon the request of the Nepali embassy, the Riyadh-based Pakistani embassy has already approached the only brother of Mohammad Latish Wasir, who was accidentally killed by Yadav in 2006, for clemency.

"In its preliminary conversations with the brother of the victim, the embassy has found him interested in settling the case by agreeing upon a certain amount of blood money,"   But Wasir´s  who was married and his wife is the  rightful claimant of blood money. Wasir´s wife, now married to someone else, though married to someone else now, she was Wasir´s wife until his death. Therefore, her consent is equally necessary. I am informed that the Pakistani embassy is trying to find her. If she gives her consent, Yadav will not have to die.

 

Your Excellency, I believe in your justice and mercy, I therefore urge you to use your royal rights to delay Yadav's execution and spare his life. Your intervention will save a human and the reward of which is equivalent to saving the whole of humanity.

I look forward to your response on this urgent matter.

Yours sincerely

,

William Nicholas Gomes
Journalist & Human Rights Activist
80/ B Bramon Chiron, Saydabad,
Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh.
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William Nicholas Gomes
Journalist & Human Rights Activist
80/ B Bramon Chiron, Saydabad,
Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh.
Cell: +88 019 7 444 0 666
E-mail:William [at] williamgomes.org,editorbd[at]gmail.com
Skype: William.gomes9
Face book: www.facebook.com/williamnicholasgomes
Twitter: twitter.com/williamgomes
Web site :www.williamgomes.org

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