Indian workers humiliated in Saudi Arabia

Indian workers humiliated in Saudi Arabia

Dubai: The humiliating and degrading treatment, including shaving the heads of Indian expatriate workers by overzealous Saudi authorities trying to enforce the government's Saudization orders, has come in for condemnation in the Kingdom's media.
The influential Jeddah-based Arab News described the tonsuring of ticketing clerks after raids on travel agencies as "appalling and sad because it happened in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, the protector of all human rights".

Implementation of Saudization rules is one thing; Saudization is the law and the law must not be ignored. But dragging off ticketing clerks and shaving their heads is quite another, the paper said in an editorial on Thursday.

"Those responsible may well say that they were doing their patriotic duty by arresting non-Saudi travel agency employees; but they achieved the exact opposite. They have done great damage to the image of our country in the eyes of the foreign community here and the international community abroad," it said.

Arresting innocent expatriate workers, as if they were criminals, and making them pay for their own heads to be shaven have nothing to do with Saudization. "But it has everything to do with violating the very basics of human rights: security and dignity," it wrote.

http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=13426315

My experience says that human rights and Saudi Arabia only know each other in passing.

On edit: Does this count as "brown on brown" crime?

They make Jim Crow and Apartheid look beign.
Saudi Arabia is definately one of the most evil countries on this planet (Whabbism, sucking up to the BFEE, etc.) and if * really cared about eliminating terrorism he'd be tougher on them.

is nothing compared to how they treat their women.

it's working out so well for them? :hurts:

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