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Zapanta was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his Sudanese landlord, Imam Ibrahim, in a rent dispute back in Ibrahim's family initially.

Legal cases. The family of Joselito Zapanta, a Filipino migrant worker on death row in Saudi Arabia, are trying to raise 'blood money' to save their son's life, since they are not satisfied with the legal aid that the government is providing see full story here and here. His son, Joselito Zapanta, went to Riyadh in October to work as a tile setter.

Migrante migrant party says that his employer did not pay his salary for six months so he left and survived on part-time jobs. He phoned his family in May last year to say he would could send only a little money for his two young children. The next the family heard was in June when a friend told them Zapanta had been badly beaten by his Sudanese landlord who had died in the dispute while trying to collect rent.

Zapanta was convicted for killing his Sudanese landlord, Imam Ibrahim, over a rent dispute in Ibrahim's family has asked for SR4 million in blood money.

Joselito Zapanto went to Saudi Arabia to work as a tile setter in , but after his employer withheld his salary for over six months, he left his job. He then worked at odd jobs to support himself, and tried to scrape together enough money to support his young family in the Philippines. His father maintains that he was trying to defend himself when he accidentally killed his landlord.

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