Monday, March 21, 2016

Video of weeping Indian goes viral, Saudi government jails him...

A video of a man weeping and narrating his plight as a driver in Saudi Arabia has gone viral on the internet with over one million views, after it was posted on March 12. The man has been identified as a native of Dandeli, Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. He has been jailed by the Saudi police for allegedly posting the video.

The man in the video, Abdul Sattar Makandar (35), a native of Hasan Maad area in Dandeli, is seen pleading for help to return to India from the kingdom where he has worked since 2014 as a truck driver at a construction engineering firm in Al Khobar.

Abdul says his employer of 23 months has not granted him leave, has not paid him regularly and is preventing him from leaving the country as his Iqama (work permit) and passport were in his possession. He claims he was forced to sign unknown documents. “Abdul sought help and sent me the video on March 12 and I posted it on Facebook in a bid to attract the attention of the Indian government to help bring him back,” Delhi-based social activist Kundan Srivastava told The Hindu.

The video of the weeping driver went viral on the internet last week and is being shared rapidly. Abdul’s plight made it to the headlines of The Huffington Post and the BBC World Service. Full story...

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