RIYADH – The brother of a Bangladeshi national who was shot dead in 2011 by a Saudi citizen has praised Saudi Arabia's justice system after concerned authorities contacted him and asked him not to leave the Kingdom because the execution of the man who had killed his brother would take place in two weeks. The brother spoke highly of the judiciary in the Kingdom which punishes criminals regardless of their nationalities. He told Saudi Gazette that the concerned authorities asked him to attend the execution of the killer of his brother, Aneesul Rahman. His brother used to work at a phone shop in Riyadh and was killed during a robbery pulled off by a young Saudi. The killer had broke into the store early one morning to rob the place and engaged in an altercation with Aneesur Rahman who tried to stop him. He was carrying a gun and shot Aneesur Rahman dead. Col. Nasser Al-Qahtani, spokesman for Riyadh police, said the Bangladeshi was shot dead by the Saudi who escaped in a Toyota Hilux with his friend, but was later arrested. The victim's brother said the killer had prior criminal records and had committed several armed robberies. “Just seven months before killing my brother, he shot dead a Sudanese man.” Aneesul Rahman's brother has been living and working in the Kingdom for 20 years and has always felt secure. He brought his brother, Aneesul Rahman, over to the Kingdom 15 years ago, to work with him in the same phone store. His brother was supposed to get married last May. “My brother had always been polite,” he remembered. The killer's father has come several times to the victim's brother with offers of blood money, but he refused these requests and so did his parents and siblings who want justice to prevail and the killer to be executed so that similar armed robberies stop.
