A 38-year-old woman from Hyderabad who had traveled to Saudi Arabia for work and was held imprisoned by her employer was rescued and sent back home. Husna Begum, who had traveled for tailoring work, was forced into doing the household jobs and was tortured for days. She was united with her family after undergoing 35 days of torture. Ms Begum, a resident of Mohammad Nagar in Hasan Nagar, has a seven-year-old son. Her husband had left her and she was living with her parents.
She had accepted an offer from a Mumbai-based agent to travel to Saudi Arabia. The agent had approached her through a local woman for a tailoring and designing job and she traveled to Saudi Arabia 40 days ago. But when she reached, her employer Abu Saad Faris, showed her a different agreement which stated that she was employed as a help. When she refused to do the job, she was imprisoned in a room and beaten severely. But she managed to send a word out to Hyderabad and her family informed the Ministry of External Affairs, who, through the embassy at Saudi Arabia, rescued her.
