Asir (Saudi Arabia), SVM News, August 27, 2007: 17 Indian christian employees are suffering house arrest and severe persecution at a water company in Asir province in Saudi Arabia since August 15. They don't even get proper food and needed treatment.
It was revealed by Manoj of Kerala State, who escaped from the Saudi company and reached back to India.
"There were 22 youth were selected and sent to Saudi Arabia by a recruiting agency for the post of driver cum salesman during the last week of April, 2007. Company offered them eight hours duty per day, good salary, and flight charges from India," Manoj said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service.
"But company did not keep the promises, because the employees were christians. They did not pay back their flight charges too," Manoj continued. "Employees were told to work in the company 18 hours per day without any rest. They were treated as slaves. Company authorities did not want to consider them even as domestic animals," Manoj said with tears.
Manoj became sick during those days. But company did not sanction him leave at least. Manoj became worse. His friends forcely took him to the hospital. That provoked the company authorities and they started more persecution to the other christian employees and put them under house arrest. They hardly get proper food in the custody. When they are being provided some food, Arabian people spitting on it and giving them to eat.
When he became seriously ill, company sent him back to India without giving him salary and allowances. Manoj said to the SVM News that he did not have a single coin with him. He sent a missed call to his brother, so that his brother called back from his mobile and came to know Manoj is arriving back to India. And he went and picked him up from Trivandrum air port.
Ronald Alex from Iritty in Kannur district was one among those 22. "He regularly used speaking us from Saudi Arabia by phone. But since August 15 we did not receive any call from him. So we enquired and found he is under police custody," Ronald's father Baby and mother Gracy told to Paul Ciniraj, the director of the Salem Voice Ministries.
Another young man Jose Chacko, son of Chacko and Mariamma from Iritty itself in Kannur district fear the arrest of Saudi police and hiding in a Keralite's home.
PLease pray for these christian youth.
Source: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews230.html
It was revealed by Manoj of Kerala State, who escaped from the Saudi company and reached back to India.
"There were 22 youth were selected and sent to Saudi Arabia by a recruiting agency for the post of driver cum salesman during the last week of April, 2007. Company offered them eight hours duty per day, good salary, and flight charges from India," Manoj said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service.
"But company did not keep the promises, because the employees were christians. They did not pay back their flight charges too," Manoj continued. "Employees were told to work in the company 18 hours per day without any rest. They were treated as slaves. Company authorities did not want to consider them even as domestic animals," Manoj said with tears.
Manoj became sick during those days. But company did not sanction him leave at least. Manoj became worse. His friends forcely took him to the hospital. That provoked the company authorities and they started more persecution to the other christian employees and put them under house arrest. They hardly get proper food in the custody. When they are being provided some food, Arabian people spitting on it and giving them to eat.
When he became seriously ill, company sent him back to India without giving him salary and allowances. Manoj said to the SVM News that he did not have a single coin with him. He sent a missed call to his brother, so that his brother called back from his mobile and came to know Manoj is arriving back to India. And he went and picked him up from Trivandrum air port.
Ronald Alex from Iritty in Kannur district was one among those 22. "He regularly used speaking us from Saudi Arabia by phone. But since August 15 we did not receive any call from him. So we enquired and found he is under police custody," Ronald's father Baby and mother Gracy told to Paul Ciniraj, the director of the Salem Voice Ministries.
Another young man Jose Chacko, son of Chacko and Mariamma from Iritty itself in Kannur district fear the arrest of Saudi police and hiding in a Keralite's home.
PLease pray for these christian youth.
Source: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews230.html
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