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
Bahrain General Prison Prisoners
Indonesia attempts to secure reprieve for Tuti Tursilawati
December 26th, 2011
Abusive employers Prisoners Saudi Arabia
Tuti Tursilawati, 27, is an Indonesian migrant on death row. Her story is like many others: left to wander the parameters of Saudi Arabia’s discriminatory judicial system with sporadic aid from her own government, she agonizingly awaits to hear her fate: last-minute amnesty or execution via d...
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 ...
Suicide of Detained Migrant Prompts Investigation
October 23rd, 2011
General Kuwait Prisoners Suicide
The suicide of an Indonesian maid in Kuwaiti custody is drawing questions about the conditions of her imprisonment.The woman hung herself with her scarf, her severed neck indicating that she had not been checked up on for days. Current accounts of the case are conflicting; one reports that security ...
Crackdown on undocumented migrants in Jordan; 28 OFWs nabbed
October 1st, 2011
Deportation Documentation Jordan Prisoners
The host government had just launched a massive crackdown on undocumented migrants last week, according to a Filipino migrants group providing assistance to distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said his group is receivin...
Kuwait: Months-old baby in Jail
July 18th, 2011
Housemaids Kuwait Prisoners Women
A horrifying story was featured in the last page of the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Qabas. The report said that a baby who is less than a year old is living in prison right now. The child is allegedly the result of “adultery” between an Indonesian housemaid and a Bengali man. The woman co...
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...
UAE: Maid arrested after escaping abuse, set to be deported
April 12th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Prisoners Slavery Sponsorship UAE
A Filipino maid whose employers refused to let her resign after overworking and mentally abusing her for three years, has been taken to the Al Wasl immigration holding prison in Dubai and is set to be deported, the Emirati 7 Days paper reported today. The maid, a mother of-one, has attempted to resi...
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