Apr 6, 2017 Few days old but wtf The floor looks clean in this high-rise apartment, seven stories above Kuwait City traffic. Not a smudge in sight on the picture window. On the other side of the glass, the maid is hanging on by one knuckle, screaming. “Oh crazy, come here,” a woman says casually in Arabic, holding a camera up to the maid. “Hold on to me! Hold on to me!” the maid yells. Instead, the woman steps back. The maid's grip finally slips, and she lands in a cloud of dust, many stories below. The maid — an Ethiopian who had been working in the country for several years, according to the Kuwait Times — survived the fall. The videographer, her employer, was arrested last week on a charge of failing to help the worker. It's still unclear what led to the fall. But it was not the first time a domestic servant had fallen off of a building in Kuwait, an oil-rich country where foreign workers are cheap, plentiful and live largely at the mercy of their employers. Human Rights Watch has spent years documenting cases of workers abused, exploited, attacked or driven to desperation by a draconian labor system called kafala, in which foreigners surrender rights to get a work visa in the Persian Gulf. Like thousands of others, its investigators are disturbed by the Kuwait City video. “I've talked to workers who said they had to figure out a way to escape, and scrambled off buildings to do so,” said Rothna Begum, a researcher for the rights group. “What was shocking about this video is that the employer had filmed it from inside the flat — while she [the worker] is asking for help.” The woman, who reportedly landed on an awning and broke an arm in the fall, is one of more than 600,000 foreigners working in Kuwait, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. That's about one servant for each family in a country of about 3 million people, Begum said. “It's becoming quite trendy,” she said. “Even low- and middle-income families will have a domestic worker. They're considered to be incredibly cheap, and you can exploit them.” http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...instead/ar-BBzsXkG?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp @Koolo finally had enough of his maid
Apr 6, 2017 but if she failed helping her, her fingerprints would be all over her arm not defending her though, this s--- is so f---ing ridiculous.
Apr 6, 2017 thank god she survived Makes my blood boil.... f---ing trash human beings playing Scar as if it was the Lion King, that f---ing b---- recording.
Apr 7, 2017 Slavery in middle east is so disgusting Just a while ago Indian maid was beaten to death and was covered up by the police. There have been cases where Indonesian maids have been set on fire and labelled suicide by the police. A few months back, one Filipina woman, Irma Edloy, was r---d to death by a Saudi man and once again, the police didn't even bother arresting the Saudi beast. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/stor...while-in-riyadh-hospital#sthash.oFODe6nM.dpuf Filipino nurses who attended to the r---d domestic worker said they saw blood in her underwear and bruises on her face and body. "She has been there for less than a month, and now she's coming home in a coffin," http://www.manilatimes.net/pinay-r----victim-in-saudi-passes-away/280901/ "But Bello voiced suspicion that Edloy may have been a victim of g--- r--- because of the extent of the injuries that she suffered. "I suspect that it was not ordinary r---. It might be a g--- r--- although these are all speculations,” he said." http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/phili...igation-in-death-of-woman-in-riyadh-1.1881870 "Edloy had bruises on her body and lacerations on her private parts when brought to the hospital, nurses at the hospital said" http://interaksyon.com/article/131581/comatose-ofw-in-riyadh-has-died She was brought to hospital with various injuries and blood stains on delicate parts of her body. "She has been there for less than a month, and now she's coming home in a coffin. We cannot just brush her death aside, as just another news report". Torture is also very normal. People might be surprised that Saudis put these transgender women in sacks and beat them with sticks, but torturing is very normal in the country. The police simply don't care. For instance: Indian Muslim maid beaten to death by Saudi couple after months of continuous torture, she even called her parents back in India begging them to save her before she ended up dead. Saudis authorities say she died of "natural causes". Saudi couple not even arrested let alone charged. https://www.rt.com/news/342518-indian-maid-saudi-tortured/ “Once, I escaped from the home and tried to lodge a complaint with the police station. But the policemen were unresponsive. They told me to go back or face imprisonment. So I went back and they beat me up more,” she rues. Unable to bear the torture, she jumped from the balcony and was injured in the spinal cord. In other words, the Saudi police would imprison the maid if she refused to be tortured by her Saudi employers. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...woman-comes-home-to-safety/article8743534.ece Saudi couple hammer 23 heated nails into a Sri Lankan maid because she complained about the heavy workload. The Saudi couple were not charged. www.hrw.org/news/2010/09/02/saudi-arabia-domestic-worker-brutalized Saudi woman brutally mauls her Filipina maid, forces her to eat one of her used sanitary napkins, smashes her head against the wall, tortures her brutally and starves her over months. http://www.iweb.ph/maltreated-saudi-ofw-forced-eat-sanitary-napkin Saudi woman cuts off the lips of her Indonesian maid, burns her entire body with an iron, mutilates her face and beats her so brutally that she has broken bones, internal bleeding and cannot walk. She was beaten into a coma and was completely traumatized. The Saudi woman was freed of all charges. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332279/Sumiatis-injuries-Shocking-photos-Indonesian-maid-abused-Saudi-employers.html Saudi woman scalds a Filipina maid's back with boiling hot coffee, disfiguring her entire back, because she did not make the coffee quickly enough. Again, the Saudi woman was not charged http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-water-caused-storm-countrys-servants.html “The abuse allegedly inflicted by Wafa al-Khuraifi on Keni binti Carda includes repeated burning with an iron, forced ingestion of feces, psychological abuse and application of household cleaners to open wounds,” says the letter, obtained by the Jakarta Globe. “Mrs. al-Khuraifi also poked Keni’s tongue with a knife, pried her teeth loose and forced them down her throat". The Saudi woman was not charged. http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/...-saudi-arabia-burned-forced-to-eat-own-feces/ Saudi woman hacks off an Indian maid's entire arm with a sword after the maid tried to escape after being tortured and starved by the Saudi employer. The Saudi woman was not charged (Notice how Saudis are never ever charged for their crimes; they have no responsibility for their actions, it's always the migrant's fault, even if they are tortured / r---d to death) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34483504 Slavery is also pretty normal in Saudi Arabia. The perpetrators are NEVER punished; the only "punishment" for slavery is losing their slave and being forced to pay a bit of compensation for stealing huge chunks of their lives: Sri Lankan maid enslaved for 16 years http://ceylon-ananda.com/lankan-maid-held-captive-for-16-years-in-saudi-arabia-returns/ Maid enslaved for 13 years, owed 60,000 SAR https://web.archive.org/web/20110711204815/http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article469256.ece Saudi enslaved a different maid (2016) for 13 years, no payment http://www.emirates247.com/news/reg...-from-travel-for-13-years-2016-05-03-1.629048 Lankan Maid enslaved for 15 years https://web.archive.org/web/20110711204815/http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article469256.ece Maid enslaved for 10 years, however Because she needed and desired to return to Sri Lanka as quickly as possible, no case ever went to trial and Marie never recovered her back wages from her sponsor. https://web.archive.org/web/20110711204815/http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article469256.ece 12 years a slave is nothing for the Saudis... As a redditor below correctly pointed out, Saudi Arabia only banned slavery in 1962 and this was only after coercion by President Kennedy. There are videos on youtube showing Saudis in the 1960s openly selling naked East African slaves in metal chains in slave markets and doing things like groping them and checking their teeth (similar to ISIS treatment of Yazidis). Saudi Arabs Are Still Selling Castrated Black Slaves TODAY Rich Arabs Give Their Children Black Slaves As Birthday Gifts A housemaid is enslaved, used as a sex-slave and g--- r---d everyday for months by an entire family of Saudi men. One family member even started drugging the Nepali maid so he could r--- her more easily. "They r---d me whenever they want, whatever time of the day" www.asiasentinel.com/society/a-nepali-womans-ordeal-in-saudi-arabia/ But high level Saudi government officials would never do this right? Right? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ds-of-Saudi-diplomat/articleshow/48940210.cms http://www.reuters.com/article/india-saudi-nepali-r----activists-idUSKCN0RH2A820150917 (This is only one of the source, google for hundreds more) Basically, a Saudi diplomat, called Majed Hassan Ashoor, who lives in Jeddah, enslaved 2 Nepali housmaids when posted as a diplomat in India and along with over 22 of his Saudi diplomat friends (with diplomatic immunity), they r---d, g----r---d, sodomized and sexually tortured 2 Nepali maids every day for over 4 months, ending September 2015. According to another source, it started when Mr. Ashoor asked for a "massage" and then r---d the maids with other family members saying "if you show any resistance, we'll k--- you and throw you in the sewer". Then the Saudi diplomat invited his diplomat co-workers to join in and it continued over months. Mr Majed Hassan Ashoor passed the maids around to over 20 of his friends who repeatedly g----r---d them. The maids said that sometimes, 7-8 Saudi diplomats r---d them at the same time, they anally r---d them and they even tortured the maids for their own sexual gratification and they had injuries all over their body. Two independent medical reports after the ordeal stated the maids suffered "brutality" and they had extensive injuries from their rapes and g----rapes. If you think that's bad enough, all of this happened with the consent of his wife and his daughter, Roza Ashoor, who "knew what was going on". The wife of the Saudi diplomat also tortured and beat the maids, forced them to work 20 hour days and starved them and forced them to feed off scraps. Basically this enormous g----r--- and slave racket happened with the consent of his entire extended family and co-workers. Anyway, on a related note: GENEVA, Nov. 21, 2016 – The UN just elected Saudi Arabia to a 3-year term on its Human Rights Council
Apr 7, 2017 we need to look at ourselves first before we criticize other cultures sure there's widespread slavery and sexual torture going on in the middle east, but in North America we're building pipelines so
