SAUDI ARABIA

Filipina on trial for involvement in terror operation

Mansour Al-Shihri
Okaz/Saudi Gazette RIYADH — Trial has opened for a Filipina working illegally as a nurse in a dental clinic who is accused of cooperation in a terror activity. Two years ago, security authorities busted an explosives manufacturing factory belonging to the Daesh terrorist organization. It was run by a Syrian explosives expert. The nurse was helping the Syrian national and another Filipina who was sewing explosive belts. The factory was set up in a house in Al-Faihaa district east of Riyadh. The Bureau of Public Prosecution convicted the non-Muslim unmarried 27-year-old “nurse” of obstructing justice by not informing the authority about the explosives factory. She was recruited to work as a housemaid but she escaped and started working illegally as a nurse in a dental clinic. She was also convicted of having an unlawful intimate relationship with the Syrian explosives expert. The general attorney demanded a harsh punishment for her.