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Monday 1 March 2010

[wanita-muslimah] Re: Hospital fears for abused maid's life, Indonesia Consulate refused to follow up

 

Wah lama tak muncul2' apa khabarnya pak Kartono ?
Saya benar2 kehilangan tulisan anda

--- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, "Kartono Mohamad" <kmjp47@...> wrote:
>
> Sangat menyedihkan jika pihak konsulat kemudian seperti takut-takut
> menangani kasus ini, atau malas membela bangsanya yang konon dianggap
> sebagai pahlawan devisa. Di pihak siapa sebenarnya pejabat konsulat itu
> berdiri? ajnagn lupa keberadaan mereka di sana dibayar dari uang yang antara
> lain disumbang oleh para pekerja tersebut.
> KM
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Dharmawan Ronodipuro
> Date: 3/1/2010 9:04:08 AM
> To: Ansyaad Mbai
> Subject: Hospital fears for abused maid's life, Indonesia Consulate refused
> to follow up
>
> http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article23575.ece
> Hospital fears for abused maid's life
>
> BRUTAL: Indonesian maid Sariti Haiti shows signs of torture on her back to
> doctors. (AN photo)
> By MUHAMMAD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS
> Published: Feb 27, 2010 11:39 PM Updated: Feb 28, 2010 4:18 PM
> JEDDAH: Erfan & Bagedo Hospital in Jeddah has rejected the request of Safa
> police to hand over an Indonesian maid, who has been receiving treatment at
> the hospital, to her sponsor.
> The maid was admitted to hospital on Dec. 20, 2009 after she fell from the
> third floor of her sponsor's apartment building.
> The maid, Sariti Haiti, told hospital authorities that she had been tortured
> by her sponsor. She was brought to hospital by Red Crescent officials with
> injuries and bruises on different parts of her body. Initial reports said
> the maid's backbone and neck were broken after falling from the building.
> Doctors at the hospital observed that the maid had been beaten up and
> tortured and they found signs of torture on her back in the form of burns
> and signs of lashes. They also detected internal bleeding and an injury to
> her head. The treatment bill reached SR120,000.
> Dr. Ahmed Erfan, deputy general manager of the hospital, said the maid was
> working for a Saudi woman. "We contacted her sponsor to pay the bill. A man
> responded from the other side and acknowledged the maid worked for them but
> refused to pay the bill," he said.
> The hospital then contacted the Indonesian Consulate, which refused to
> accept the hospital's letter by hand. It had to send the letter then by fax.
> After a week a consulate representative came to inspect the condition of the
> maid but he did not come back again. "After two months we wrote a letter to
> Jeddah Gov. Prince Mishaal bin Majed, who promised he would follow up the
> matter," he said.
> Last week the hospital received a letter from the Safa police director
> asking them to hand over the maid to her sponsor. "Fearing for the maid's
> life, we placed her in the psychiatric section, which is guarded round the
> clock. We also informed the National Society for Human Rights which told us
> not to hand the woman over," he said.
> Dr. Erfan expressed surprise that the consulate was not cooperating with the
> hospital. He said the hospital would follow the instructions of the governor
> "We are not bothered about the bill but we are very concerned about the
> maid's health," he added. The Human Rights Commission said it would discuss
> the matter with the relevant authorities. The maid came to Saudi Arabia in
> August 2009.
> "After a month her woman sponsor started mistreating her," the maid said.
> The maid said the sponsor used to throw her food in the bin when there was
> any delay in completing her work. The sponsor also allegedly cut part of her
> hair in the front in order to prevent her from going out and threatened her
> that she would cut off all her hair.
> The maid said the sponsor accused her of stealing her gold. "She took me in
> front of her sons and removed all my clothes to check my body in order to
> find out whether I had kept that gold under the clothing," she said. The
> maid added her sponsor had also asked her to leave the house after giving
> her the passport but she did not leave, fearing the woman would tell police
> that she had run away.
> "After some time, the sponsor said the taste of tea I was preparing had
> changed as she accused me of urinating in the tea. I told her that it is
> haram and I would never do it. She also forced me to drink the urine of her
> children in front of them," she said. The maid said the sponsor had beaten
> her head with a frying pan on Dec. 19, 2009, causing a deep injury on her
> head. "My sponsor asked me to cover my head and remove the blood from the
> ground. She threatened me that she would cut my body into pieces if I did
> not follow her orders," she said.
> "I was afraid that she would kill me one day," the maid said, adding that
> she jumped from the apartment to escape from the sponsor. She did not
> remember anything except the guard told her not to jump from the building.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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