沙特法院判肯尼亚家政女工100鞭刑：因婚外生子获罪、另判一年放逐，肯尼亚称将经外交渠道交涉
《纽约时报》11月10日刊出的调查报道披露，40岁的肯尼亚家政女工 Esther Wanja Muthoni 在沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得被刑事法院以婚外性行为定罪，今年10月被一个三名法官组成的合议庭判处100鞭刑，另加一年放逐。她一年多来想带1岁的儿子 Abudy 回肯尼亚，却因这宗刑事案件迟迟无法成行，刑罚何时执行、放逐是否意味着遣返回肯尼亚，目前都不清楚。
Muthoni 是五个孩子的母亲，经沙特招聘公司 Maharah Human Resources 合法赴沙特做家政工作，与一名埃及男子 Mohamud 有过一段短暂关系后怀孕，2025年8月在员工宿舍生下儿子。孩子生父此后已离开沙特，判决没有显示当局曾追究生父；Muthoni 出庭时靠翻译协助。沙特2020年曾宣布限制鞭刑作为司法处罚，此案判决的依据是法庭对有关宗教条文的解释。
肯尼亚外交部常务秘书 Korir Sing'oei 11月11日表态称，肯方对这一刑罚表示关切，按肯尼亚的法律标准这种惩罚残忍、不人道；他同时表示肯方承认沙特的司法主权，将继续通过外交渠道与沙特方面交涉。人权组织与劳工移民分析人士批评称，此案再次暴露海湾国家外籍家政女工的脆弱处境。
（来源：《纽约时报》）
Saudi Court Sentences Kenyan Domestic Worker to 100 Lashes Over Child Born Outside Marriage: Kenya to Raise Case Through Diplomatic Channels
An investigation published by The New York Times on November 10 disclosed that Esther Wanja Muthoni, a 40-year-old Kenyan domestic worker, was convicted by a criminal court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of having sex outside marriage and was sentenced in October by a three-judge panel to 100 lashes plus one year of banishment. For more than a year she has been trying to return to Kenya with her one-year-old son, Abudy, but the criminal case has blocked her departure; it remains unclear when the punishment will be carried out or whether the banishment order means deportation to Kenya.
Muthoni, a mother of five, was working legally in Saudi Arabia as a housekeeper and nanny through the recruitment company Maharah Human Resources when she became pregnant after a brief relationship with an Egyptian man identified as Mohamud. She gave birth to her son in staff accommodation in August 2025. The child's father has since left Saudi Arabia, and the judgment does not indicate that authorities pursued him; Muthoni attended her hearings with the help of an interpreter. Saudi Arabia announced reforms in 2020 restricting flogging as a judicial punishment, and the court in this case relied on its interpretation of a religious provision prescribing the penalty.
Kenya's Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing'oei said on November 11 that his government was concerned by the sentence, describing the punishment as cruel and inhuman by Kenyan legal standards, while acknowledging Saudi Arabia's judicial sovereignty and saying Kenya would keep engaging the Saudi authorities through diplomatic channels. Rights groups and labour-migration analysts said the case again exposed the vulnerability of migrant domestic workers in the Gulf.
(Source: The New York Times)
来源：纽约时报
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图片来源：图：沙特阿拉伯首都利雅得天际线与王国中心大厦（资料图）。照片：B.alotaby 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Riyadh skyline and Kingdom Centre tower in the Saudi capital (file photo). Photo by B.alotaby, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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