Migrant domestic worker beaten by her employer

A number of domestic workers who sought police help told Human Rights Watch that the police ‘returned’ them to their employer. A 27 -year-old Filipina escaped from her employers after they had hit her severely. She climbed down from the third floor and a passerby picked her up and dropped her at a police station, where she said that her employer was beating her. After making her wait for two hours, the police then called her employer, who came and took her back after promising to arrange for her to travel back to the Philippines. However,this commitment was not kept, and late 2009, the maid fled to her embassy after her employers beat her again.