http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=67225&d=20&m=7&y=2005
Wednesday, 20, July, 2005 (13, Jumada al-Thani, 1426)
Nour Miyati Transferred to Nahda Charity Home
Maha Akeel, Arab News
JEDDAH, 20 July 2005 - After spending two days in jail last
week, Nour Miyati was transferred to a charity organization. Efforts at
releasing her into her embassy's custody are still ongoing.
Miyati is the Indonesian maid who accused her sponsor and his
wife of torturing her and tying her up in a bathroom for a month until she
developed gangrene and had to have some of her fingers and toes amputated. She
was still at a hospital in Riyadh receiving treatment when she was arrested on
Monday last week.
An investigative report said Miyati changed her previous
statements about being tortured and was charged for making false allegations
against her sponsor.
The Indonesian Embassy was surprised by the arrest because
they were not informed beforehand. Labor attache M. Sukiarto tried to get her
released from jail under the custody of the embassy but the police refused. He
has sent a diplomatic note to the Foreign Affairs Office asking why she was
arrested and to have her released in the embassy's custody but has not received
a response yet.
Meanwhile, Riyadh Governor Prince Salman heard of Miyati's
arrest and ordered her transfer to the Nahda Women's Charity Society two days
after her arrest. The Indonesian Embassy and the lawyer it hired for her,
Nasser Al-Dandani, were not informed of the transfer by the police until
yesterday and assumed she was in jail.
They were not able to visit her in jail or inquire about her
because of the long bureaucratic procedure. First they had to apply and get
permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which could have taken at
least two weeks, and they wanted her out as soon as possible. They were worried
about her condition especially that with some of her fingers and toes amputated
Miyati had trouble walking and feeding herself; while she was in the hospital
she was assigned a helper to assist her.
Sukiarto, Al-Dandani and other members from the embassy were
finally able to visit her at the Nahda Society. "Her morale was not good. She
was afraid and did not know why she was taken to jail or why she was at the
Nahda Society," said Sukiarto to Arab News. "We tried to comfort her but the
poor woman was scared. She is still supposed to be held and we are trying to
have her released to the embassy's custody on bail, perhaps today, especially
that she is not considered a prisoner and her condition does not allow her to
be without medical attention," he said.
Miyati continues to suffer pain and difficulty hearing from
her left ear and seeing with her left eye sustained from the punches and
injuries caused by the alleged beating from her sponsors.
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