Saudi Supreme Court sets aside Sri Lankan migrant worker’s death penalty

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• Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court on October 13, 2026, set aside the death penalty given to Sri Lankan migrant worker Anojan Sivarasa over a Facebook post deemed blasphemous.
• The 24-year-old engineer from Ampara district was initially sentenced to five years in prison, then given death by the Saudi Court of Appeal in the Eastern Region in September.