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RIYADH, July 17, 2007 (AFP) - An appeal for a teenage Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a four-month-old baby has been launched, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Rizana Nafeek, 19, was convicted of strangling her employer's baby in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom in February 2005 in a case that has raised international concern.

Lawyer Kateb al-Shammari told AFP he is preparing a case to submit to an appeal court which he must lodge by July 22, adding: "We will study the case from all angles so that we can prepare the appeal."

More than three quarters of the 550,000 Sri Lankans living in the oil-rich kingdom work as domestic helpers and drivers.

Executions are usually carried out in public in Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law. Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty.

In February, the New York-based Human Rights Watch asked Saudi Arabia to stay executions after it beheaded four Sri Lankans and ordered the public display of their bodies.
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The Sri Lankan government said it had made unsuccessful clemency appeals on behalf of the four men. So far this year there hav

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