Maid returns from Saudi with 24 nails inside body


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Colombo, 26 August 2010: A Sri Lankan housemaid has returned home from Saudi Arabia with 24 nails embedded in her body after allegedly being tortured by her employer, officials said yesterday.

 

A government minister said police were investigating a complaint from L T Ariyawathi, 49, that her Saudi employer tortured her and drove nails into her body as punishment.

 

“We are conducting an investigation and we will co-ordinate with Saudi authorities to have the suspects arrested,” Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena told reporters.

 

The woman travelled to Saudi Arabia in March and returned home last week, complaining of abuse by her employer.

 


A housemaid, above, who returned from Saudi Arabia with 24 nails inside her body, talks to a nurse while receiving treatment at a hospital in Batticoloa yesterday

 

Abeywardena said doctors who examined the woman found the nails inside her body and she was currently being treated at a local hospital.

 

Some of the nails are about two inches (5cm) long, according to pictures of the X-rays published in the local press, and were driven beneath the skin of Ariyawathi’s hands, feet and legs.

 

According to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Employment Bureau, around 1.8mn Sri Lankans are employed abroad, of whom 70% are women.

 

Most are employed as housemaids in the Middle East, while smaller numbers work in Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

Complaints of harassment are made regularly and the government has made it compulsory for migrant workers to register with local authorities, to ensure they can be provided with consular services if they encounter problems.

 

 

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Stany Quadros, Udupi / Sharjah Thu, August-26-2010, 12:59
This is a painful horror!!!
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