Three housemaids committed a suicide by hanging themselves at their employers’ houses in the Saudi capital Riyadh in less than a week. Two Ethiopian maids were found hanged by the ceiling fan at home while an Indonesian was found with her neck tied to the window.
Emirates “Police are still investigating these separate suicide cases which took place in Riyadh in just six days,” Kabar newspaper said. Scores of Asian and African domestic workers have been reported to have committed a suicide in Saudi Arabia over the past years because of mistreatment and other factors. Other maids were involved in murdering or injuring their employers.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, is the largest Arab base for foreign domestic workers, with hundreds of thousands of maids from Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other countries working in the Gulf Kingdom of nearly 28 million people.
Occasionally, the abused maid gets revenge: Maid mixes employers’ food with menstrual blood
Testimonies from foreign domestic workers confirm their virtual slavery at the hands of employers in Saudi Arabia, a senior Philippine politician has said following a fact-finding mission to the kingdom.
(Photos below are of housemaids who have suffered severe physical and sexual abuse by their Saudi employers)
ALL VOICES “A working day of 18 to 22 hours, constant threat of sexual abuse from employers the women called ‘maniacs’, and beatings, sometimes with the use of hot irons, by the wives of employers.” Rep. Walden Bello also said some Filipinos were being forced to sign a second contract upon arrival in Saudi Arabia with a salary significantly below the Philippine-government mandated minimum wage of 1,500 riyals ($400) per month, Arab News reported.
Bello said the Philippine Overseas Labour Offices (POLO) had rescued “scores” of Filipino women from oppressive employers, Arab News reported, adding that most of those in the shelters were victims of violence and sexual abuse. The lawmaker’s comments come at a time when the treatment of domestic workers is under close scrutiny in Saudi Arabia following numerous cases of alleged abuse.
In the most high-profile case, 23-year-old Indonesian Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa suffered stab wounds, burns to her scalp and broken bones at the hands of her female employer. Gruesome images of Sumiati lying in a Medina hospital bed made the front pages of newspapers and led television newscasts in Indonesia, sparking public anger and causing a diplomatic spat between the two countries.
A Saudi court last week sentenced a woman to three years in prison for stabbing, beating and burning Sumiati, according to local newspapers. Human rights groups have long said domestic workers face physical and financial abuse in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states due to inadequate labour laws.
UK ‘Dispatches’ went under cover in Saudi Arabia to reveal the brutal reality of life for thousands of immigrant workers. A British crew follows Jessica, a young Filipino woman, who travels to Saudi Arabia as a contract worker as she moves from family to family, is raped, beaten, and forced to change her religion.
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I know its about money, but is your life worth it? I really don’t understand why they go there. This is repeated daily
Lynn, it’s about the money. These women are dirt poor.
Exactly, BNI… they are desparate.
So, according to Chuck Hagel, they should be exploding among their opressors, not just hanging themselves.
Or am I missing something?
What do you expect from a bunch of backward, desert savages who get to dig all the money in the world out of the ground without having to think about it…
They beheaded one yesterday or today, caused quite an uproar with human rights groups.
Does anyone really expect better behavior from people who wear diapers and fanbelts on their heads? Koranimal is as a koranimal does.
Ant yet you’re totally quiet on the gang rapes on buses in India because they’re committed by Sikhs. Bit of a selective view of reality here.
Amy, this website is about Muslims, not Sikhs or Hindus. But I will soon be posting some material about all the rapes of Hindu and Sikh girls done by Muslims but rarely reported in the media.
The inadequate Labor Laws are NOT the main problem. It is the Islamo-supremist mentality of the oil-rich Arab/Muslim world that is at the root. The liberal left of the West, Europe, USA, etc is under the spell of the Religion of Peace, while the conservative right, conversely are sounding the alarm often and to no avail. Immorality, rebellion, and anti-Christ/ant–Israel sentiment are truly at the deepest core of this, if you dig deep and far back enough. They view Ishmael as the son of the promise, rather than Isaac. And they are pissed.
But even Islam itself is a result of rebelling..notice how “Bible’like” most of the verses in the Koran sound? how they’re worded is similar, often. Yet perverted and twisted into what Emo-hammed wanted as he devised his own religion and called himself a prophet. And rebellion in the heart ALWAYS results in blindness to whats right and to what’s plain to see for those who want whats right. Disgusting and sad..but not surprising.
I guess the filipino government can’t enforce the terms of the contract. as long as the rest of the world refuses to make islamic countries responsible for their behavior and just let them do as they please oil money or not this kind of thins will continue
dragon, I believe that the government of the Phillipines did ban women from going to work there for 2 years. But I think that’s over now.
The King could care less. He plays homosexual games with his boy friends and has no time for the people. What do you expect from a TYRANT? How far behins is BO?
This kind of reporting (of Moslem abuses of everybody and everything “un-Islamic”) is surely one of the things that ought to be trumpeted in ALL the media day and night – that it’s not shows how much of the governmental and big-business infrastructure has been bought up by those accursed Saudis and other Arabo-Persian Gulf people, with the important people therein being no doubt well-bribed!!!!
Much as capitalism is truly the life-blood of the economies of the world, its biggest weakness surely is the multinational corporations, where ANYBODY can buy their shares and so exert influence upon their boards of governors and executives!!! It would seem that one of the things that needs to be done is the restricting of who can buy their stocks and bonds so as to make it impossible for Moslems – especially those Arabs – to own ANY Western investments!!!!
Although such an action (prohibition of Moslem ownership of investments) is clumsy and likely to not have full success, at least it would be a hindrance if enforced strictly; and its effectiveness would become a whole lot better when ALL Moslems are EVICTED from the West and all Westerners are recalled from dar al-Islam – which also would then kill the market for these unfortunate people risk their lives, safety and everything else in those sevenfold-ACCURSED core-Moslem nations!!! Those rich SADISTS would have to stick with their own fellow-Moslems as their employees – which at least would not be as important to us once the Western and the Islamic worlds are TOTALLY SEPARATED!!!!
This is yet another reason why I’ve been and am so insistent as to why ALL Moslems MUST be driven out of the West and why Westerners equally must leave dar al-Islam ‘in toto’. This would be the preparatory step to cutting off ALL commercial, cultural, transportation and all other links, so that the muzturds would have NOBODY non-Moslem to exploit and abuse…
Again: ALL Moslems OUT OF THE WEST – and all Westerners OUT of dar al-Islam!!!
DEATH TO ISLAM!!!!!
Bait and switch is normative Islam, rather than an aberration: promise the moon, then deliver SLAVERY.
Islam is the deceitful delusions of a moon woshiping lunatic.
God bless these poor, suffering women. Their countries need to do more to warn them: DON’T GO TO SAUDI ARABIA, NO MATTER WHAT FALSE PROMISES THEY MAKE.
Kafirs are DIRT to Mozzies and may be abused.
most of the abused workers are muslims from indonesia, not Kaffirs
Amy, this site is about Islam. Which bit of that do you not understand? If you want to start an anti-Sikh site, please go ahead…
WESTERN COUNTRIES HAVE REMAINED SILENT BECAUSE OF OIL.
UK NEWSPAPERS ARE PERVERSE BECAUSE THEY WILL RATHER PRINT PICTURES OF NAKED WOMEN IN PAPERS AND CALL IT “NEWS”.
WHY SHOULD WE WANT TP KNOW WHO A SO CALLED “CELEBRITY SLEPT WITH THE NIGHT BEFORE WHEN BARBARIC CREATURES IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THEIR RELATIVES IN UK ARE CARRYING OUT SUCH ATTROCITIES IN THE NAME OF THEIR ROTTEN “RELIGION”
GREED AND OIL HAS BLINDED WESTERN POLITICIANS.
Laz, please don’t use CAPS LOCK for the whole comment.
Exactly right Lazarus.
They go becasue there is no work in their own countrys and 99% so they can send money back to their families whom are old or too young to work and no benefites system. THE SAUDI RELGION THERE IS MUSLIM all Muslim are pyschopathic in outlook the men hate women and women hate everyone even their own kids becasue they are forced in to the Islamic life and know nothing but the same , they are reoffenders and inbreed that causes this evilness in gene pools.
OMG there but for the crace of God go us eh!!!!
My God peeps the Islamis like these are taking the world and no one is stopping them that counts and can do except the French come on the west join together and defat this evil cult free them all the women and children of Islam. Tears!
THE ONLY THING THESE ISLAMIC bAST**DS HAVE EVER ACHIEVED IS GETTING OIL OUT OF THE GROUND TO GIVE THEM POWER TO FUND EXTEMISTS TO MAKE THE WORLD ISLAM. TRUTH BE KNOW THEY GOT A WESTENER TO DO THAT TOO I BET. Sorry for shouting I am so cross at these poor peaple working to live. No wonder they are killing them selves what life have they or will ever have. Next thing they will have a slave watching they do not kill them selves punishable by death if they do this is where Evil Hitler learned his ideas he were best buddies with the Muslims.