Articles by Amantha Perera

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24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily
Amantha Perera – Inter Press Service-IPS, 4 Mar 2013

Ariyawathie, 52, from Sri Lanka, left to work as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia in early 2011. She worked only five months and returned home with oozing wounds after burning iron rods were inserted into her skin by her employers. She has reason to feel lucky. On Jan 10 [2013] Rizana Nafeek, a 25-year-old maid jailed in Saudi Arabia for the accidental death of an infant was beheaded without notification to the family or Sri Lankan authorities.

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