Indonesian woman facing beheading in Saudi Arabia freed after $500,000 "blood money" paid...

An Indonesian maid set to be beheaded for murder has been set free this week after her government paid the victim’s family ‘blood money’.

Darsem binti Dawud was sentenced to death by a judge in Saudi Arabia in May 2009 for the killing of a relative of her Yemeni employer. She alleged that the victim tried to rape her and pleaded that her attack was self-defence.

The Riyadh court was not convinced, but Darsem is now safely back in her home country after the victim’s family agreed to a 530,000 dollar (£340,000) pay-off.

After the sentence was passed around £170,000 was collected from social networking site campaigns, television ads and appeals by local officials to try and get the 25-year-old released. More + photos...

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