[Amani fled her employer after six months in Oman but the police caught her. She said she explained that her employer forced her to work 14-hour days with no days off, and did not allow her to rest when she fell ill. But the police arrested her and called her employer who came a week later]
The employer told the police “she owes me 700 rials” ($1,818). They agreed at the police station that my employer will find another employer for me, so he could get back his money
[after completing her two-year contract in Oman she asked to go home]
They tricked me. They said, “Okay, let’s go to hospital,” and I thought this was for a card to leave. But they took the tests for the renewal. I realized that they had renewed the visa after we were coming back home. They said, “You are not going, you are going to stay for the rest of your life.” I had no choice but to work and bear them.
We go there because there are no jobs. We go there and we get mistreated.
We tolerate it. Then we come back and have no jobs. We forget about what happened and we want to go again.
As told to researchers for Human Rights Watch
