30 April 2010 :
two Filipino women, Idan Tejano and Noraisa Talib Mabanding, were sent home from Saudi Arabia after being pardoned. The Jeddah General Court sentenced them to death for murdering and robbing the pregnant wife of Tejano’s employer on May 21, 2001. In May 2004, the Supreme Judicial Council upheld the death sentence. Arab News learned that the Philippine government paid SR4 million riyals blood money to the victim's family.(Sources: The Inquirer, 17/02/2010)
