[Al Arabiya] Saudi authorities denied allegations that a Sri Lankan maid was tortured by hammering nails into her body and accused Sri Lankan labor firms of blackmail.
Saad al-Badah, head of the Foreign Workers Committee at the Saudi Chamber of Commerce, said that 49-year old Sri Lankan maid L.G. Ariyawathi lied when she alleged that the Saudi couple she worked for hammered nails in different parts of her body.
Ariyawathi claimed that her employers used to punish her by heating nails and needles then driving them into her body. The total number of metal objects in her body was 24, she said. |