Bruised and bandaged, maid’s tale of Saudi abuse

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2005/March/todaysfeatures_March65.xml§ion=todaysfeatures

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1. related: FBI Arrests Saudi Prince's Wife in Maids Case

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8042345

BOSTON (Reuters) - FBI agents on Wednesday arrested a Saudi prince's wife on charges she forced two Indonesian women to work for her as servants and threatened them with "serious harm" if they refused, prosecutors said.

Hana Al Jader, 39, was arrested on federal charges at her home in the upscale Boston suburb of Winchester, Massachusetts. A U.S. magistrate judge ordered her held without bail pending a hearing on Friday afternoon.

Al Jader was charged in a 10-count indictment with forced labor, domestic servitude, falsifying records, visa fraud and harboring aliens in connection with two Indonesian servants identified only as "Tri" and "Ro."

If convicted on all charges, Al Jader would face up to 140 years in jail and up to $2.5 million in fines.

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2. No chance she'll be convicted.

A Saudi princess? Nah, no chance.

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3. welcome to DU Jilly Beans!

:hi:

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4. Hey, UIA.

It's me...Maddy McCall. I'm traveling and forgot my password, so I created a new account while I'm on the road. But your welcome proves that DUers are the friendliest folks in the WWWorld. :7

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5. Hi Maddy!

Glad that you're hanging around with the best folks and we can live up to our reputation :D

Hope your travels are all good and you get home safely :hi:

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7. Ah Ha! Travelling under an assumed name! ...It's ok. Some of my

parts have other names too!:silly:

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6. The BFEE will protect him

They'll give him the same preferential treatment they gave the Bin Laden family

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8. I briefly lived in Riyadh

and while there, I had to attend a special "ladies" court (I was suing my employer for breach of contract). While my male Saudi "speaker" was pleading my case, I had to wait in a kind of holding area with two Philippina women who shocked me with tales of fellow country-women being raped, beaten and abused at the hands of their Saudi employers. One tale of a woman who came to work as a nanny/housekeeper for a rich Saudi family where she was worked for 3 months without pay. When she complained to her employer, she was gang raped, driven to the Philippine embassy and dumped at the gates. Nothing was ever done to the Saudi employer and, unpaid for her hard work and unable to pay her way home, the poor woman was forced to live at the embassy with many other women with similar stories..for SIX MONTHS! I tell you...I heard this story and saw many, many things while living in the middle east that showed, in MY opinion, a basic disregard for human beings, even life in general (you should see a Saudi "pet store"....)

(not saying Saudi's are bad people or contributing to a racist attitude...just sharing an experience I had in Riyadh.)