A Kenyan mom, who has led a protracted and determined marketing campaign to avoid wasting her son from execution in Saudi Arabia, was once vulnerable with peace when he was once granted a brief reprieve this date.

Stephen Munyakho, 50, was once because of be done on Wednesday for the homicide of a Yemeni guy in 2011. It will were performed by way of decapitation – beheading is probably the most regular mode within the kingdom – or by way of putting, deadly injection or firing squad.

However his keep of execution is simplest brief – and Dorothy Kweyu, 73, has instructed the BBC she has no longer but been given any longer information about her son’s case by way of Kenya’s Ministry of International Affairs.

It approach her nervousness has no longer eased. She continues to be seeking to carry the “diyah” or blood cash that below the Islamic criminal device, referred to as Sharia, would store a forgiveness from the sufferer’s public.

Saudi Arabia is an Islamic atmosphere and its judicial device is in accordance with Sharia for each prison and civil circumstances.

A folk attraction has to this point raised lower than 5% of the desired $1m (£790,000) wanted, says Ms Kweyu, a revered journalist in Kenya.

Getting extra past to lift the cash could also be what Kenyan executive officers, negotiating on Ms Kweyu’s behalf, are hoping would be the approach ahead.

Pronouncing the execution’s extend on Monday, Korir Sing’Oei, a senior legitimate within the international ministry, stated negotiators have been devising “strategies to bring this matter to a more acceptable conclusion, and thereby giving both families the closure they so urgently need and deserve”.

Mr Munyakho, referred to as Stevo to his buddies and public, was at paintings in Saudi Arabia in his early 20s and 13 years in the past was once a locker supervisor at a Pink Sea vacationer lodge.

In step with Ms Kweyu, her son were given right into a dispute with a workman, who she stated stabbed Stevo with a letter opener.

Stevo retaliated by way of grabbing the letter opener and attacked his paintings mate, well-known to his dying.

“Initially, my son was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail,” she instructed the BBC.

“We expected him to be inside for two-and-a-half years, in accordance with international norms – but it was not to be.”

However an attraction was once heard in 2014 that modified the sentence.

“The court ordered that my son face capital punishment, which would have meant the death sentence,” Ms Kweyu stated.

“Later on, however the family of the deceased was convinced by a Kenyan delegation in Saudi to take the diya offer of blood money.”

However the negotiations have proved lengthy and hard – and elevating the cash for Stevo, who has 3 youngsters, has no longer been simple.

A court docket had all set 15 Would possibly because the closing date for the blood cash to be paid.

“One day I asked: ‘Is there a way we can exchange, so that they execute me instead of Steve my son?’ But I was rebuked and told to stop talking like that,” Ms Kweyu stated.