RIYADH: A Saudi court in Madina has sentenced a woman to three years in prison for stabbing, beating and burning her Indonesian house maid with an iron, Saudi newspapers reported on Monday.

The Saudi employer still insisted on Sunday that she was not guilty and had nothing to do with the wounds inflicted on Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, al-Watan daily said.

The woman was sentenced under the newly-enacted anti-human trafficking royal decree, the paper said, quoting a lawyer for the Indonesian consulate, Abdulrahman al-Muhamadi.

Muhamadi said he will appeal the ruling, pressing for a tougher punishment. Sumiati had appeared in court last week showing the judge the marks of her wounds, after she had failed to attend an earlier hearing.—AFP