Filipino overseas worker beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Manila - A Filipino overseas worker convicted of killing a Saudi Arabian national was executed Tuesday, a senior Philippine official said.
Foreign Undersecretary Esteban Conejos said Jenifer Bidoya was beheaded after his death sentence was affirmed by the Saudi Arabia Supreme Court.
Conejos said Bidoya was sentenced to death by the Jeddah Sharia Grand Court in April 2007 for killing a Saudi national guardsman.
Bidoya's execution was carried out despite the appeal for clemency of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
Conejos said the family of the victim refused to forgive Bidoya and insisted on the imposition of the death penalty.
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos are working in Saudi Arabia, one of the first countries to accept Filipino migrant workers in the early 1970s. (dpa))
