YouTube Clip of Labor Abuse in Saudi Arabia

June 25, 2012

Online activists posted a YouTube video of a Saudi citizen abusing and blackmailing an immigrant who criticized Saudi Arabia.

Labor immigrants in Saudi Arabia are often treated poorly, especially from Africa and Asia, as their sponsors sometimes subject them to blackmail. In the video, the immigrant begs the Saudi not to report him for speaking out against the kingdom. The Saudi hits him and makes him kiss his hands and feet forcing the immigrant to apologize.  

Other activists have re-posted the video and criticized the Saudi citizen on Twitter:

 @A_DLL
‎‫#سعودي_يهين_وافد‬‏ ‎‫#اهانة_وافد_بالسعودية‬‏ الغالب ان الشخص عسكري !! على
العموم مقطع يُشعرنا بالخجل والتقزز من ماشاهدناه (ان ربك لبالمرصاد )

“It’s likely that the offender is a soldier. Videos like this make us feel ashamed and disgusted. (Your god is watching you.)”

Ashkanani ‏@MA_Ashkanani

اهانة وذل وافد في السعودية، وسبه وسب اهله والبصق عليه وجعله يقبل اليد والسبب
انه قال امريكا اقوى من السعودية!؟
شاهد هذا المقطع قبل الحذف‏ ‎‪#Saudi‬‏

"Because he humiliated a foreign worker in Saudi, he and his family are cursed.  He spit on the worker and forced him to kiss his hand just because the worker said that America is stronger than Saudi.”

Hamad Abu-Ghazalah ‏@7madHani

‎‫#اهانة_وافد_بالسعودية‬‏ لو كنت قاضيا لحكمت عليه بتقبيل يد وقدم البنقالي
وتصويره اثناء التقبيل ونشره

“If I were a judge, I would have sentenced him to kiss the hands and feet of the immigrant then videotaped and published it.”

 

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