Saudi Arabian employer accused of chopping off Indian maid’s hand

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Jason Burke in Delhi

An Indian maid has claimed her employer in Saudi Arabia cut off her hand in punishment for poor work, after months of mistreatment in the kingdom.

Kashturi Munirathinam, 55, is being treated in a hospital in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, her family told Indian media.

Munirathinam travelled to Saudi Arabia from her home in a rural district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu three months ago to take up a job as a cleaner in a household in the eastern city of Dammam and then in Riyadh. She was to be paid about £150 a month.

“When she tried to escape harassment and torture, her right hand was chopped off by the woman employer. She fell down and sustained serious spinal injuries,” her sister, S Vijayakumari, told local media.

“The incident happened after … she complained about torture and non-payment of wages by her employer. Some neighbours and others took her to hospital,” relatives told the Indian Express newspaper.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/saudi-arabian-employer-accused-chopping-off-indian-maids-hand-kashturi-munirathinam

[eissa]

1. Barbarians

Why those from mainly SE Asia continue to go to that shithole for work is beyond me. I'd take my chances on starvation then work for those sadistic assholes.

[Vincardog]

2. That is the choice they have starve or hope for a better life working for a$$holes. Just like in USA

[Jake Stern]

3. Under KSAs byzantine visa rules

a foreign worker's exit it controlled by the sponsor. Some employers seize and hold passports making workers de facto prisoners.

A trick used by Western expats wanting to leave Saudi Arabia before their contract concluded was to leave on "vacation" and not return.