'Stevo' Munyakho: Kenyan's race to raise blood money to avoid execution in Saudi Arabia

A Kenyan mother's desperate attempts to save her son who is on death row in Saudi Arabia.

ShareA Kenyan mother, who has led a long and desperate campaign to save her son from execution in Saudi Arabia, was weak with relief when he was granted a temporary reprieve this week.

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic state and its judicial system is based on Sharia for both criminal and civil cases. Mr Munyakho, known as Stevo to his friends and family, went to work in Saudi Arabia in his early 20s and 13 years ago was a warehouse manager at a Red Sea tourist resort. But the negotiations have proved long and difficult - and raising the money for Stevo, who has three children, has not been easy.“One day I asked: ‘Is there a way we can exchange, so that they execute me instead of Steve my son?’ But I was rebuked and told to stop talking like that,” Ms Kweyu said.

Modern interpretations mean this amount differs in different countries as diyah is now usually paid in cash.

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