{"id":1141,"date":"2010-08-29T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T03:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2010-08-29T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T03:44:00","slug":"saudi-employer-hammers-18-heated-nails-into-the-arms-legs-and-forehead-of-his-sri-lankan-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Saudi employer hammers 18 heated nails into the arms, legs and forehead of his Sri Lankan maid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An X-ray shows nails hammered into the body of a Sri Lankan maid.<\/p><\/div>\n

Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.<\/p>\n

She was held down by her employer’s wife while the employer hammered the heated nails … She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked.<\/p>\n

Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother’s journey to Saudi Arabia for work.<\/p>\n

Many of the [Saudi] domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal. Widespread abuse has been documented by global human rights groups.<\/p>\n

Common complaints include unpaid wages, long working hours with no time for rest, and heavy debt burdens from exorbitant recruitment fees, said the Human Rights Watch report.<\/p>\n

Isolation and forced confinement contribute to psychological and physical abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, and trafficking, the report said. The abuse often goes unchecked because of a lack of government regulation and protective laws.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/27\/sri.lanka.maid.assault\/index.html?hpt=Sbin#fbid=NFREUrOb8gJ&wom=false<\/a><\/p>\n

SARCASM ALERT: I just don’t understand why narrow-minded, xenophobic, Islamophobic Americans are so unwilling to embrace Islam… although I am sure this was partly the woman’s fault somehow: maybe she offended the Saudi in some way or insulted his honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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