Last updated at 2:05 PM on 3rd March 2011
An Indonesian maid faces being beheaded in Saudi Arabia after murdering the employer she claimed had tried to rape her.
Darsem binti Dawud Tawar had pleaded self-defence when she went on trial accused of the fatal attack on her Yemeni boss.
Camapaigners are now desperately trying to raise half a million dollars in blood money to save her life.
Death sentence: Darsem binti Dawud Tawar says she had acted in self-defence when she killed her Yemeni employer
Darseem was found guilty at at Riyadh court in May 2009.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Kusuma Habir said the victim's family agreed to pardon her if she came up with 530,000 dollars (£340,000) - known in Arabic as 'diyat' or blood money - by July.
She said they had already collected 265,000 dollars (£170,000), through social networking site campaigns, television ads and appeals by local officials.
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