SAUDI ARBAIA A SRI LANKAN MAID TORTURED BY EMPLOYER AND FROZEN TO - TopicsExpress



          

SAUDI ARBAIA A SRI LANKAN MAID TORTURED BY EMPLOYER AND FROZEN TO DEATH INSIDE THE REFRIGERATOR BUT NOW ALIVE 31ST AUGUST 2013 A Sri Lankan maid in Saudi Arabia has been tortured by her employer and even forced into a refrigerator, the Arab News reported. The Sri Lankan Embassy in Saudi Arabia however refuted reports that the housemaid in the Kingdom was frozen to death inside a refrigerator. A senior official from the embassy told Arab News that the incident was alleged to have been perpetrated by the Saudi sponsor. “We summoned the housemaid to the mission with the help of the job agent and the Saudi Embassy,” he said, adding that the maid was in good health, except for some burns on her body. Nilangederage Dayaratne had come to the Kingdom as a maidservant to a household in the Al-Qassim region. Sources say the maid had complained to her husband in Sri Lanka that her sponsor was torturing her and putting her in a refrigerator with the aim of killing her. The official said that the maid was admitted for a medical check up at the hospital and the authorities found that she was healthy. She was discharged from the hospital on the same day and was brought to a safe house. The maid had complained that she was tortured over her dispute with her employer. The diplomat said that the mission is trying to negotiate for an amicable settlement between the employer and the maid, since the maid has only been in the Kingdom for the past two months. Dilan Perera, Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare of Sri Lanka, said that his ministry is now focusing on the supply of skilled workers to the Kingdom and other countries in the region, stressing a need to move toward a “gradual shift from housemaids to skilled workers.” Perera said that supplying domestic workers to foreign job markets after ensuring their security and rights, as well as welfare and rehabilitation programs when they return to the island, have been among the challenges that are often unresolved. “
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:42:08 +0000

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