An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) has been in jail for twelve long years in a Bahrain prison after the court sentenced him of unpremeditated murder. Now he is pleading for government assistance to avail the host countries’ yearly Royal pardon, according to Migrante-Middle East (M-ME), a migrant ri…
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12 years in prison, OFW seeks govt. help to avail Royal pardon
February 1st, 2012
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Israel passes indefinite detention bill
January 15th, 2012
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Israel’s parliament passed an incredibly controversial law last week that permits the unlimited, indefinite detention of migrants. The law amends a 1954 statute pertaining to guerrilla fighters penetrating the Israeli-Egyptian border. By sactioning the same wartime punishment against alleged terro...
Group urges Philippine govt. to work hard saving doomed OFW in China
November 30th, 2011
A Filipino migrants’ rights group today called on the Aquino administration and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to work hard and intensify its efforts to save a Filipino convicted of drug trafficking in China. In a statement issued on November 30, the DFA confirmed that a Filipino whom it ...
Migrants in Libya face uncertain future
November 28th, 2011
A recent U.N. report estimates that over 7,000 prisoners remain detained in Libya. A substantial percentage of these men, women, and children are sub-Saharan African migrants caught up in the volatile transition of power. Accounts of arbitrary arrest and torture have been documented by human rights ...
Commentary: Women Filipino Inmates with Children in Dubai Prison
August 9th, 2011
9 August 2011 Commentary: Women Filipino inmates with children in Dubai prison by John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator Last week, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME), care of this writer, received reports about the more or less fifteen (15) women OFW inmates with children...
Israel: Migrants tell of grim conditions in holding facility for children
June 28th, 2011
Deportation Israel Prison Women
Two Israeli NGOs have launched a campaign against the deportation of migrant children, following the deportations of 26 children and their mothers and disturbing reports about the conditions in the holding facility in which the families are being held before being deported. The deportations are the ...
Migrant rights group welcomes Saudi’s alternative punishments
June 14th, 2011
Legal cases Prison Prisoners Saudi Arabia
Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of Filipino migrants rights providing assistance to distress, run away, stranded and jailed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) today said it lauded the plan by the Saudi government in crafting alternative punishments for crime offenders. Citing local reports, Migrante...
The plight of Eritreans in Egypt
June 11th, 2011
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This post originally appeared on the Arabist and re-posted here with permission. You should also watch Channel Four’s recently aired documentary looking at Eritreans in Sinai who tried to sneak into Israel. Asylum seekers and refugees in Egypt face a threat of deportation to countries where ...
OFWs ‘Overstaying’ Jail Terms in Saudi
December 17th, 2010
Deportation Gulf Prison Prisoners
By John Leonard Monterona, (Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator) We have been receiving complaints from jailed Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia who claimed they have already completed their jail term. Thus, we would like to get the attention of Department of Foreign Affairs an...
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