Arabs have recorded a video message to Obama with a request to pardon the perpetrator

Several Saudi public figures recorded a video message to President Barack Obama, to spare the Saudi Arabian Homaidan al-Turki, who was sentenced in Colorado to 28 years in prison for rape of maid.
Five-minute video posted on YouTube. In the video message also was Al-Turki’s,daughter a conservative imam Sheikh Salman al-Ouda, as well-known Saudi writer Turki al-Dakil. Arab speech duplicated English subtitles.

The video claimed that Al-Turki deserves leniency Obama is not less than other U.S. presidents who pardoned drug traffickers, illegal arms suppliers and other criminals. In the drive pulley and specific examples. Among them – John F. Kennedy pardoned Hank Greenspan, who was considered the head of a network of illegal arms supplies to Israel, and also convicted of similar offenses E Schwimmer, released by order of Bill Clinton.

Commenting on the video, the authors stressed that not insist on the innocence of al-Turki, but they believe his sentence is too harsh. According to the defenders of the convicted, he does not deserve 28 years in prison.

Homaydan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 for being a student in Colorado illegally confined her maid from Indonesia, did not pay her money and then raped at all. Sentence Al-Turki angered the Arab public, who accused U.S. authorities of intolerance towards Muslims against the background of the fight against terrorists.

The Saudi Arabian authorities have tried to reduce the sentence Al-Turki, but in vain. In April 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the protection of al-Turki, confirming the original sentence to 28 years in prison.