Who was Sweety Akhtar, mother of 9-year-old executed by Saudi Arabia over adultery?

Married twice and abandoned by her second husband, Bangladeshi national Sweety Akhtar left her country to secure her daughter's future. But, she ended up in a Saudi Arabian prison and was executed over alleged adultery, leaving her family unaware of her death sentence until they learnt about it on Facebook.
Sweety Akhtar's last phone conversation with her father gave no hint that it would be their final one. Married while she was in Class 8, divorced, remarried and later abandoned by her second husband, Sweety Akhtar had left Bangladesh for Saudi Arabia... [5436 chars]
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