Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Saudi abuse scandal rocks India...

Last week there was an uproar from the Indian human rights lobby in general and women’s groups in particular when news broke about the abuse of 2 Nepali women used as sex slaves by a Saudi diplomat stationed in New Delhi.

The women, who had originally been promised employment as maids, had been imprisoned in the diplomat’s luxury flat, tortured, starved, raped, sodomized, abused and beaten. They were also forced to provide sex for the diplomat’s friends when he so commanded them. One finally managed to escape and alerted the police and a human rights NGO. The Saudi diplomat’s wife reportedly had the gall to verbally abuse the police who raided the flat.

Every major newspaper, magazine and TV channel broke the story in all its salacious detail. Sex, sodomy, Saudis. Definitely makes for titillating headlines; and TV anchors had a field day with viewers glued to the television. Yet, the Saudi family, including the wife and daughter, who had done nothing to help the Nepali women, were allowed to fly out of India with impunity. Even the police, incandescent at reportedly being slapped around by the diplomat’s wife, were helpless. Full story...

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