A Kuwaiti sponsor was seen beating his Asian worker with an iron rod near the Indian Embassy in Kuwait City as the police did nothing to stop him, the Arab Times reported this week.
The worker went to the embassy to seek protection from his abusive sponsor, but did not reach his destination when his sponsor, accompanied by policemen caught on to him. The sponsor then began to brutally hit the worker with an iron rod in front of the policemen who did not stop him. Officials in the Indian embassy who wanted to protect the worker hesitated because of the presence of the apathetic Kuwaiti police. After suffering this abuse, the worker was arrested and brought to the Daiya Police Station where he was pressured into some form of “compromise”.
Unfortunately, this disturbing case of injustice is not extraordinary. Only a few days ago we reported about the rape of a maid by a Kuwaiti police officer. Migrant workers commit suicide in Kuwait on a weekly, if not a daily basis, and the causes of their death are rarely investigated. No sponsor to date has been charged with abusing his worker to the point when suicide seemed like the only way to escape the maltreatment.
Recently, the Kuwaiti Appeals Court reduced the sentence of a Kuwaiti woman who beat her Asian maid to death from 15 to 7 years. The woman beat her maid with wooden and iron objects and then dumped her in a bathtub where she suffered for 10 hours until dying, yet the Appeals Court reduced the woman’s charge to merely “beating that led to death”. The Kuwaiti “justice” system seems more interested in cases where Kuwaiti nationals are the victims of a crime.
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April 24, 2010
appalling..inhuman..
April 24, 2010
Unbelievable that ordinary people can be so cruel… and get away with it
April 24, 2010
I have seen Kuwait Military Personnel beat down an Indian worker before. This worker did not even work for Kuwait Military but worked as a contractor for the U.S. military at a joint Kuwait-American base. When I tried to intervene, this pissed off the Kuwait Military. I have seen police officers in Kuwait at the Rumaithiya Police Station beat down people wanted for questioning. The CID personnel just said and I quote “We can practice police brutality in our country, but in the U.S. it’s not allowed”
May 2, 2010
This is very sad to see such ill incidents happing in my country, but this what we get when we just nationalize others who bring with them their own problems from their mother country. The native Kuwaitis are very decent but a minority. Just recently the Kuwaiti police had cursed the death of a mother; the reason for the police brutality was the daughter had honked her car horn to a policeman in civilian uniform.
May 3, 2010
Mohammad,
When will the Kuwait EVER do anything about abuses in Kuwait.?
May 3, 2010
Dear Jason:
Abuses will stop whenever we start admitting that there are abuses in our society. Unfortunately the majority of our people know that abuses are taking place, but those who could do something about it are in a state of denial, and they will not admit it as it would reflect their weakness in leadership. Our problem is that people with power do not have the necessary talent to match the power. Also it is a norm for people to abuse their job positions in all levels of responsibilities; the smaller one is the more abuse would exercise.
May 8, 2010
[...] off their phones. A few days prior to this exhibition of negligence, we reported about how Kuwaiti policemen stood idly by as a sponsor brutally beat his Indian [...]
May 8, 2010
[...] off their phones. A few days prior to this exhibition of negligence, we reported about how Kuwaiti policemen stood idly by as a sponsor brutally beat his Indian worker.Domestic workers, the most vulnerable of migrant [...]
May 13, 2010
my father died on march 10 in india because of these mader***s ….he worked as a foremen in kremenco he use to send his salary after a month delay the problem which was frequent in every year….. due to depression he had faced for 9 years he developed daibeitis and then pancreatic cancer. they even did not helped financially for his treatment……….