Human trafficking carries a jail term OR a fine, or both. is often condemned for owning slaves by: Enter your email address to subscribe. Mauritania has an estimated 17% of its population enslaved. From the port of Zanzibar the black slaves would be shipped to the Arabic peninsula or to the Persian Gulf to serve as slaves or soldiers in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran or Iraq. In November 2006, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers travelled to Saudi Arabia where he met with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan to clear up "misperceptions" about the U.S. judicial system. Although slavery had been outlawed in And Trump keeps supporting those bastards? It was reported in June 2005 in The Denver Post that a Saudi couple who resided in Aurora, Colorado had been accused of keeping their Indonesian maid in captivity for 4 years forcing her to cook and clean. With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Bolivia, Ecuador, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Jamaica, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kuwait, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Togo, as a Tier 3 country by the United States Department of State in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article was originally based. Now, new laws promise to end its most abusive parts. After nearly two months, I was like a mad person.”, According to statistics from Vietnam’s labor ministry, there are currently 20,000 Vietnamese workers in the kingdom, with nearly 7,000 working as domestic staff for Saudi families…. “Robert Lacey (born 3 January 1944) is a British historian The government provides training for police officers to recognize and handle cases of foreign worker abuse. Daniel Greenfield, Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense. The government has begun working with UNICEF and the Yemeni Government to prevent trafficking of children for begging. As is well known, slavery was formally abolished in Saudi Arabia as late as 1962, and then only after terrific pressure had been applied to the Saudis by Western governments. “I understand that as [domestic] workers we need to get used to difficult working conditions,” said Dao, who is vocal on social media about her experience. There shouldn’t be any surprise in this story. Workers and their relatives have to rely entirely on the Vietnamese broker companies for support. Saudi Arabia retains the death penalty and other forms of physical punishments as criminal sanctions, including flogging and amputation. If we had that, we would not have begged for rescue.”…, “As soon as I arrived at the airport in Riyadh, they (employees from a Saudi company providing domestic workers) pushed me into a room with more than a hundred of others,” she said. The couple was originally charged in federal court with involuntary servitude, punishable in cases involving sexual assault with life in prison. Feminists? In addition to the harsh working conditions, there is the persistent threat of sexual assault by their Arab masters. trade in Africa. Some domestic workers have been raped and murdered by their Arab employers. One of the ugliest such incidents was the murder of a slave by a Saudi prince in London. All of these countries should be warning their citizens. They cannot even contact anyone in the outside world unless the employer “feels like [allowing her].” They are, essentially, prisoners whose brutal living and working conditions are set by the employer, who answers to no one. The maid entered the couples service at 17 through an Indonesian employment agency as a domestic worker. Didnt think so. In other words, the Vietnamese brokers, having been paid by the Saudi employers, have washed their hands of the Vietnamese workers sent to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Slavery. in [year] 1944, the management of the Waldorf Astoria [hotel] Saudis enslave Bangladeshi workers and abuse them too. Hence the 18-hour days, seven days a week, and the single meal each day. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed. Muslims don’t believe in human rights for anybody but themselves, so it’s best not to make that a criteria. (chapter 3, page 44) by Bruce and Becky Durost Fish, year 2001, They are captives of their employer in every sense. Another case involved Princess Buniah Al Saud, niece of Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was arrested in Orlando, Florida and accused of pushing her Indonesian maid down a flight of stairs. at every UN debate on the subject up until the autumn of That alone should make one pause. What can be done when the Slaves are listed as “Family Members”? If workers get, at best, $388 per month, that means that if they manage to persuade their employer to give them back their passports and to let them leave, they will still have to come up with between seven and nine months of salary that must be paid back. An Islamically-sanctioned barbarity continues. The ministry said it will remove restrictions tying millions of low-paid and vulnerable migrant workers to their employers, which had often led to abuse and exploitation. With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Bolivia, Ecuador, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Jamaica, Venezuela, Cambodia, Kuwait, Sudan, Cuba, North Korea, and Togo, as a Tier 3 country by the United States Department of State in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article …