Saudi Arabia: A Nightmare
From the Blog sarahinsouthkoreaDesperate after six months of hard work with no pay and an employer who refused to grant him permission to travel home, the 26-year-old Egyptian stood atop a building, threatening to jump to his death. While police officers in the provincial Saudi Arabian city of Taif managed to convince the young man to climb down to safety Friday, he was later detained, and many foreign workers in the kingdom face a similarly desperate plight. More than 8 million migrant workers are employed in service jobs in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, giving it the highest population of foreign workers among the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization notes that in 2011, Asian embassies alone recorded thousands of complaints from workers forced to work 140pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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