Saudi Arabia – Sikkim Women Domestic Workers Stranded in Saudi, Allegedly Tortured, Call for Rescue
Author: WUNRN
Date: August 17, 2017
Gangtok, July 29, 2017: Families of two female employees working in Saudi Arabia identified as Peki Bhutia and Menuka Rai of Sikkim have sought emergency help from their families to rescue them.
“They have gone to Saudi through an agent named Bala Saha of Mumbai and now they are getting physically tortured every day and they are not allowing them to talk to us”, their parents were quoted as saying.
They further added, “Their passports have also been seized by the agent of Saudi. They have to work for 17 hours per day which is very harmful for their health and kept in a small room without any contact with outside world. We don’t know what has happened to them”.
The parents of the girls have sought emergency assistance from Delhi Joint Commissioner of Police, Robin Hibu in this regard.
In a statement open for the press fraternity, Robin Hibu said, “I have informed the Joint Secretary of MEA, my batch mate for help and also our Helping Hands Volunteers (an NGO) in Oman, Qatar and Dubai to explore for informing Indian Embassy in their respective countries where they are working, also informed the families to file FIR in Sikkim immediately, and also sent the information to Sikkim Bhavan officials and NE Nodal Officer of Delhi Police at Delhi for immediate intervention.
With respect to this, Robin Hibu also made an appeal to the people to be alert about people working in Saudi Arabia from Northeast India and to inform the Indian Embassy and Saudi Police immediately.
-An appeal was also sent out to reach out to the given address to assist the alleged victims from Sikkim. He also informed and mobilized Sikkim Leaders, the Chief Minister, Women Ngos and community organisations to put pressure for their safe release.
ILO CONVENTION CONCERNING DECENT WORK FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C189
NOT Ratified by Saudi Arabia as of July 30, 2017 – http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11210:0::NO::P11210_COUNTRY_ID:103208
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Sikkim is a northeastern state of India. It borders China in its north and east, Bhutan in its east, Nepal in its west and the Indian state of West Bengal in its south. Sikkim is the least populous and second smallest among the Indian states.
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