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A policeman identified only as MA has been arrested for allegedly beating up his Sri Lankan housemaid last Saturday, according to police sources.
The 33-year old housemaid, JT, was rushed to the Umm Al Quwain Hospital by the police who were called in by MA's neighbours. JT, immediately after being allegedly assaulted by MA had run and locked herself in a bedroom. A little later, she escaped by jumping out of the bedroom window and screamed for help from passers-by in the neighbourhood.
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RIYADH, 18 September 2007 — The wheels of justice would move too slow for a Sri Lankan woman who was rescued by Riyadh police after working for years in slave-like conditions: She now says she can’t wait around in the Kingdom for the legal process of suing her sponsor, and just wants to go home to be with her family.
“I don’t want to wait anymore for my dues from the employer,” said 40-year-old Anista Marie, who has been working in bondage since 1999 and is owed eight year’s worth of back pay from a Saudi woman with four teenage daughters. “I am desperate to see my children. I have not seen them for the past 10 years.”
If Marie signs away her so-called private rights to press charges against her sponsor, not only does she pose a good chance of losing eight years of her salary owed to her, but her sponsor may not face any punitive action.
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A policeman identified only as MA has been arrested for allegedly beating up his Sri Lankan housemaid last Saturday, according to police sources.
The 33-year old housemaid, JT, was rushed to the Umm Al Quwain Hospital by the police who were called in by MA's neighbours. JT, immediately after being allegedly assaulted by MA had run and locked herself in a bedroom. A little later, she escaped by jumping out of the bedroom window and screamed for help from passers-by in the neighbourhood.
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RIYADH, 18 September 2007 — The wheels of justice would move too slow for a Sri Lankan woman who was rescued by Riyadh police after working for years in slave-like conditions: She now says she can’t wait around in the Kingdom for the legal process of suing her sponsor, and just wants to go home to be with her family.
“I don’t want to wait anymore for my dues from the employer,” said 40-year-old Anista Marie, who has been working in bondage since 1999 and is owed eight year’s worth of back pay from a Saudi woman with four teenage daughters. “I am desperate to see my children. I have not seen them for the past 10 years.”
If Marie signs away her so-called private rights to press charges against her sponsor, not only does she pose a good chance of losing eight years of her salary owed to her, but her sponsor may not face any punitive action.
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