Tuti Tursilawati executed in Saudi Arabia for killing her employer

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Tuti who was born in 1984 left Majalengka, West Java, for Saudi Arabia in 2009 as a carer for an elderly man in Ta'if. She was working for 8 months but had not been paid in 6 months.

It is reported that she hit the man over the head with a piece of wood after he tried to rape her. She fled having taken around £6,500 in cash & jewellery. She met with a group of men who promised to aid her escape, however instead they (9 men) gang-raped her, and stole the cash and jewellery. They were reportedly given six month prison sentences for the gang rape.

As the murdered man appears to have high status, and his son refused mercy, the killing falls into the highest class of capital punishment for which they can be no pardon.

She spoke to her mother 10 days before being beheaded at which time no indication had been given to any party that she was about to be executed.

The rape & torture of domestic workers in Saudi Arabia & other gulf countries is very common, as is slavery, which officially was abolished in Saudi 1962, but in practice continues and is strongly supported by Saudi law, which permits practices such as confiscating of passports, mobile phones, & withholding of visas. www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/filipino-domestic-helpers-in-saudi-urging-government-to-stop-employers-from-trading

Torture and rape of domestic workers is extremely common and many thousands of women are raped by their employers in the region every year. www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2141999/philippine-maid-taken-hospital-after-saudi-boss-made-her www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/employers-from-hell-domestic-workers-tortured-by-their-masters/news-story/55b5173abfe5171b2973c478ce2704d3 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-filipino-philippines-maid-raped-by-employer-dies-in-hospital-a7207041.html

It's just horrific

Awful. Poor, poor woman.

Is there anything that we can do as individuals against this sort of treatment?

And get to get people on here recommend Dubai as a holiday place. I would not go to any uae country.

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This is from the charity that helps Indonesian migrant workers.

twitter.com/migrantcare/status/1050315186215645185

It says:

Yanti Irianti 2008 - executed by shooting for killing her employer
Ruyati 2011 beheaded for killing her employer
Siti Zaenab 2015 beheaded for killing her employer
Karni 2015 beheaded for killing her employer
Muhammad Zaini Misrin Arsad 2018 beheaded for killing his employer

72% of migrant workers under punishment of death are female

Horrifying.

I went to Dubai years ago and visited the brother of my husbands friend. They had six children and a maid from Ghana. Despite having a spare room, she slept on a yoga mat in the youngest children’s bedroom so that the parents weren’t disturbed in the night (all the time and not just because we were there visiting). I was so disgusted (along with how they spoke to and about her), I refused to stay the night but they couldn’t see why I was upset by it and were very offended.

They really do see the “domestics” as less than human.

Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia. It is part of UAE.

I can't bring myself to open that link and I don't know what to say but I don't want to read and say nothing. Poor, poor Tuti - I can't begin to imagine what her final moments must have been like.

As Bing says, does anyone know if there's anything we can do?

You can check out www.migrant-rights.org

It was setup by twitter.com/ealshafei vimeo.com/10868393 She is a Bahraini activist.

Hideous. As a pp said there are patterns here.

The poor woman. How people can go to places like this for a holiday I will never know.

Absolutely shocking. The exploitation and abuse of these vulnerable women is utterly horrific.

Thank you for the link to Migrant Rights, OP.

UEA and Saudi are very much different countries. Migrant workers are treated like Shit in both though.

We should all be boycotting sex based apartheid in Saudi Arabia and putting pressure on the government to do the same.

Women in Saudi Arabia get flogged if they are raped and in some cases imprisoned, hence rapes go unreported and unpunished. I think Saudi men value their camels more than they do women who they see as being mere property to use and abuse as they so please!
I can't begin to imagine how Tuti must have felt on the day of her execution. Maybe she felt a sense of fear coupled with relief that the horrors inflicted on her would finally be over! Yet despite these violations of human rights, countries like the U.S and UK still continue to sell weapons to these savages all for the sake of the almighty dollar!
Something needs to be done by the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to protect these women, whose only reason for undertaking this kind of work is to try and escape a life of poverty and support their families back home.
May Tuti rest in peace!!