Small stones litter a petitioners' table outside a government office in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. Each jagged shard symbolises the rocks that may soon be used to kill a Sri Lankan migrant maid convicted of adultery in Saudi Arabia, who has been sentenced to death by stoning in April. The fate hanging over the as-yet-unnamed woman-a 48-year-old, married mother of two-has provoked mounting rage in Sri Lanka, whose diplomats only learned of the case in August. Her alleged lover, an unmarried Sri Lankan man, is to be heavily flogged.
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