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| Saudi rejects Sri Lanka maid torture allegations |
| 2010-09-08 |
| [Al Arabiya] Saudi authorities denied allegations that a Sri Lankan maid was tortured by hammering nails into her body and accused Sri Lankan labor firms of blackmail. Saad al-Badah, head of the Foreign Workers Committee at the Saudi Chamber of Commerce, said that 49-year old Sri Lankan maid L.G. Ariyawathi lied when she alleged that the Saudi couple she worked for hammered nails in different parts of her body. Ariyawathi claimed that her employers used to punish her by heating nails and needles then driving them into her body. The total number of metal objects in her body was 24, she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 "She said they did that to her because she asked for a leave. Had she said that she got raped for example, it would have sounded more credible Anon1, they are saying that had she been raped for asking for a leave of absence, rather than treated as a pincushion, that would be completely believable. The implication here seems to be that raping maids is common in SA. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-09-08 13:03 |
| #2 Obviously, she must have driven nails into her OWN body, because she hates Arabs. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-09-08 11:10 |
| #1 did i read that right? it would have been far more 'plausible' if she said the employers hammered nails into her in response to her telling them she had been raped, not for demanding leave? it truly is the Magic Kingdom of wingnuts |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-09-08 01:12 |