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Sri Lanka maid kept as slave for 17 years in Saudi Arabia

Riyadh : Saudi Arabia | Feb 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM PST

By Medeshi

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The Sri Lanka Emabassy in Riyadh has rescued a lanka house maid that has been kept slave by her employer for 17 years , paying no salary and preventing her from communicating with her relatives back home. Local Saudi papers have reported that this is one of the many cases of notorious house maid market in Saudi Arabia .

The maid , Kusuma Nandini, 56, came to Riyadh in 1994 from Sri Lanka and was kept in the house of her sponsor for 15 years before she was transferred to the house of the brother of the employer who kept her for another 2 years but paid her meagre salary.

The case was discovered after the daughter of the maid who lives back home in Sri Lanka informed the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry that her family had not been in contact with her mother for 17 years.

Sunil Wijesinghe, labor welfare officer at the Sri Lankan Embassy said that the case is being raised with the concerned Saudi authorities to release the maid and pay the outstanding salary of SR54,000.

The report added that the maid does not have a passport or a residence permit to prove that she was working in the country.

Medeshi is based in London, England, United Kingdom, and is a Stringer for Allvoices.

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maryamsafdar | over 1 year ago

It is sad that she was refused to talk to her family back home.

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Bunbun4life | over 1 year ago

Thats how they keep them slaves. If she had been speaking to her family she would have told them.

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maryamsafdar | over 1 year ago

yeah I guess...still its very unfair.

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dunite | over 1 year ago

i commend the Sri Lankan government for helping thanks Medeshi!

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Bunbun4life | over 1 year ago

WHAT KILLS ME is this. SAUDI OWNS SLAVES. They don't know they're gonna be slaves when they get there, but slaves they are. They also own child slaves. Rarely these saudi's are caught in the U.S. and when they get in trouble the Saudi's and muslims say OH YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND OUR WAYS, why we lock her in the basement and rape her, keep her passport, and she signed a contract to accept $2 a day !!! OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!!! ISLAM PROMOTES SLAVERY !!

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Medeshi | over 1 year ago

I have worked over 25 years in this country and my children who were born there were refused higher education in Saudi Universities. I had to eventually relocate to Somaliland and let my children study at local universities in this part of the free world but not as rich as the Saudi Arabia.
I have witnessed Asian workers being abused there . They are often referred to as TCN ( Third Country Nationals ) . They have no right to travel outside the cities they work . Their passports are kept by the sponsors ( employers ). They need to obtain exit visa from the passport department to travel abroad or back to their country.
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