Probation Meted Out in 'Slavery' Case
The Associated Press
Friday, July 28, 2006; 4:24 PM

From:Washington Post



DENVER -- A Saudi woman accused with her husband of keeping an Indonesian maid as a virtual slave was sentenced Friday to five years' probation and ordered confined to her home until she leaves the country.

Sarah Khonaizan, 35, pleaded guilty in May to harboring an illegal immigrant. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of forced labor and document servitude.

Authorities said that Khonaizan and her husband, Homaidan Al-Turki, hid the 24-year-old woman's passport and forced her to cook, clean and care for their five children in their suburban Denver home, and that Al-Turki repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

The woman slept on a mattress on the basement floor and was paid less than $2 a day, the FBI said.

Khonaizan's attorney, Forrest Lewis, said she plans to return to Saudi Arabia after she serves her time.


Homaidan Al-Turki, left and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan, were accused of kidnapping and keeping a woman as a domestic servant against her will in their Aurora home. (Post file)    
Photo From: Denver Post

Last month, a Colorado jury convicted Al-Turki on charges that included false imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact by use of force or intimidation. He is awaiting sentencing Aug. 31.

Al-Turki, a linguist, worked at a Denver publishing and translating company and was a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado.


Dirka Dirka...Islam...Religion of Peace....

This is what they do in Saudi Arabia, so why should they be different here?  

I think we should send them both back to Saudi.....strapped to the nose cone of an ICBM.

Wow...this thread hasn't been deleted yet!

Given the politically correct sensitivities....I thought for sure this thread would be deleted like my last one was...

Understanding Islam

Islam Religion of Peace?

THE BELEAGUERED CHRISTIANS OF THE PALESTINIAN-CONTROLLED AREAS

Quoted: Probation Meted Out in 'Slavery' Case The Associated Press Friday, July 28, 2006; 4:24 PM From:Washington Post news.google.com/news?imgefp=ipoKXHwm7LIJ&imgurl=media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/07/28/PH2006072801123.jpg DENVER -- A Saudi woman accused with her husband of keeping an Indonesian maid as a virtual slave was sentenced Friday to five years' probation and ordered confined to her home until she leaves the country. Sarah Khonaizan, 35, pleaded guilty in May to harboring an illegal immigrant. In exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of forced labor and document servitude.Authorities said that Khonaizan and her husband, Homaidan Al-Turki, hid the 24-year-old woman's passport and forced her to cook, clean and care for their five children in their suburban Denver home, and that Al-Turki repeatedly sexually assaulted her. The woman slept on a mattress on the basement floor and was paid less than $2 a day, the FBI said. Khonaizan's attorney, Forrest Lewis, said she plans to return to Saudi Arabia after she serves her time. extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2006/0412/20060412_092805_ol12slavery.jpg Homaidan Al-Turki, left and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan, were accused of kidnapping and keeping a woman as a domestic servant against her will in their Aurora home. (Post file)     Photo From: Denver Post Last month, a Colorado jury convicted Al-Turki on charges that included false imprisonment and unlawful sexual contact by use of force or intimidation. He is awaiting sentencing Aug. 31. Al-Turki, a linguist, worked at a Denver publishing and translating company and was a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado. Dirka Dirka...Islam...Religion of Peace....

What about the other charges: rape, kidnapping, slavery, paying less than minimum wage....all they came up with was 'harboring an illegal alien'?!? Shit, this almost implies that it was the girl's fault.

Denver has really gone to hell.

Quoted: This is what they do in Saudi Arabia, so why should they be different here?

Did you know that Saudi Arabia (the magic Kingdom) did not abolish slavery until the 60's???!! no not the 1860's, the NINETEEN SIXTIES!! Mustve done it cause that was the age of peace and love and Islamic Hippies eh? They'll chop your head off but listen to Jefferson Airplane at the same time.

Also, the only countries left in the world that still practice scantioned slavery? You got it, its only Muslim countries that do it. This is not about some twisted individuals, they come from a place where it is a cultural high science.

Quoted: Quoted: This is what they do in Saudi Arabia, so why should they be different here?   Did you know that Saudi Arabia (the magic Kingdom) did not abolish slavery until the 60's???!! no not the 1860's, the NINETEEN SIXTIES!! Mustve done it cause that was the age of peace and love and Islamic Hippies eh? They'll chop your head off but listen to Jefferson Airplane at the same time. Also, the only countries left in the world that still practice scantioned slavery? You got it, its only Muslim countries that do it. This is not about some twisted individuals, they come from a place where it is a cultural high science.

King Faisal declared Slavery to be Illegal by Royal Fiat in 1962. (However just because something is illegal doesn't mean that it is abolished...it just moved underground)

Interesting Blog Article



Homaidan Ali Al-Turki and family

from:Boston.Com News

Forced-labor charges for Saudi prince's wife
By Stephanie Ebbert and Scott Goldstein, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent  |  March 31, 2005

WINCHESTER -- The wife of a Saudi prince was arrested yesterday for allegedly forcing two Indonesian housekeepers to work for her family at homes in Arlington and Winchester for meager wages over nearly two years.
 
A federal grand jury indicted Hana F. Al Jader on 10 counts of forced labor, domestic servitude, and other immigration offenses, alleging that she hid her servants' passports and work visas and threatened they would be harmed if they failed to perform the work.

Jader, a 39-year-old Saudi national married to Prince Mohamed Bin Turki Alsaud, shuffled into US District Court in Boston yesterday in handcuffs and shackles, wearing a black leather jacket and copper-polished fingernails.

Assistant US Attorney S. Theodore Merritt asked US Magistrate Judge Joyce London Alexander to deny bail for Jader, saying there is a ''serious risk" she could flee prosecution. Jader's arraignment and bail hearing were scheduled for tomorrow. She is being held until then.

Jader has not yet retained an attorney, though James Michael Merberg represented her in yesterday's initial appearance. Merberg said little yesterday, but he said after the hearing that Jader belonged to what ''seems to be a very fine family from Saudi Arabia."

Federal prosecutors charge that between February 2003 and November 2004, Jader threatened physical harm and restraint of her two domestic servants, identified only as ''Tri" and ''Ro" in court papers. The indictment alleges that she confiscated their passports and visas to keep them from leaving her houses, and that she made them believe that if they did not perform the labor, they would suffer serious harm.

The indictment alleges she drew up a phony work contract and submitted it to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to get visa extensions for the women to keep them working for her longer. In those documents, prosecutors say, she falsely claimed that the housekeepers were each earning $1,500 a month and working fewer than eight hours a day; prosecutors say their workdays were longer and their wages only $300 a month.

For most of 2004, the women were in the country illegally, the indictment says; Jader is also being charged with harboring illegal aliens in her homes for financial gain.

Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman for US Attorney Michael Sullivan, declined to comment on what sparked the investigation, which was aided by agents from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Jader has no prior criminal record in Massachusetts, according to court testimony yesterday.

State records list Jader as president and treasurer of H&A International Inc., a business housed in a Medford condominium building with numerous other companies. Among them is A.N.Y. Corp., run by Ammar Chamo, a relative who co-owns her Winchester home, according to town records.

The federal government is trying to seize both properties that Jader allegedly used in the offenses. The Winchester home, which she and Chamo purchased in 2001 for $635,000, is now assessed at $781,600. The Arlington home is assessed at nearly $1.2 million.

A car marked ''consul" with US State Department license plates was parked last evening outside the large Winchester home, which overlooks busy Cambridge Street and a lake in a leafy area of town. A bedsheet and a New England Patriots banner served as curtains. Neighbors said as many as 20 to 30 people frequent the house, and that many of them live there.

If convicted, Jader could face 20 years in prison for two charges of forced labor; five years on each count of domestic servitude; 20 years on each count of falsification of documents; and 10 years for harboring aliens.

Officials from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington plan to accompany Jader to tomorrow's hearing, Merberg said. A spokesman for the embassy did not return a phone call yesterday.

Westy Egmont, president of the International Institute of Boston, a resettlement agency, said in a statement yesterday that alleged mistreatment of the two housekeepers is ''unconscionable for a family of such obvious means."

''Unfortunately, other cases from Saudi Arabia indicate the concept of forced servitude is being practiced," he said.

We must appreciate their cultural diversity.  

Quoted: We must appreciate their cultural diversity.

Denver, diversity gone amok.

How did this woman stay out of jail?

Another example of the religion of peace and it's adherents in action:


Princess Arrested In Orlando

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec. 19, 2001
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(AP) After a night in jail, a Saudi princess charged with beating her maid and pushing her down a flight of stairs was freed on $5,000 bond and told to surrender her passport.

Princess Buniah al-Saud also was charged Tuesday with grand theft and with dealing in stolen property. Investigators said she stole $6,000 worth of electronics equipment and furniture from her former chauffeur.

The niece of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, al-Saud walked out of Orange County Jail on Tuesday night and was whisked away in a waiting limousine. Al-Saud, who was wearing a sleeveless shirt and pants, did not speak.

She was arrested Monday on charges of beating Memet Ismiyati, her Indonesian maid. The princess has been living in Orlando while studying English.

Al-Saud was dressed in a blue jail jumpsuit when she appeared before a judge via a video link between the jail and the Orange County Courthouse. She said nothing, but smiled brightly at the camera when the brief afternoon hearing began.

She was told to surrender her passport and to not have any contact with the maid. Her attorney, Bud Bennington, said during the hearing she would return to Washington. He did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the charges.

Police say the stolen property belonged to al-Saud's former driver, Mohammed el-Biyadi, whose name was on the lease of the town house apartment where the princess was staying with Ismiyati. El-Biyadi told police that when he returned to the apartment Tuesday, he discovered that the townhouse's locks had been changed and most of his property missing.

Al-Saud had given the property to a neighbor and written a contract to sell it, according to Orange County Undersheriff Malone Stewart. All the property was returned to el-Biyadi, who had receipts showing the items were his.

"The only speculation is that she needed money real fast," says Stewart.

Al-Saud, 41, could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted of felony battery. She faces an additional 10 years in prison for the theft and stolen property charges.

Neighbors called police Friday after Ismiyati, 36, ran crying from the apartment she shared with the princess. She told deputies al-Saud beat her, hit her head against a wall and pushed her down a flight of stairs.

"When we talked to her (Ismiyati) through an Indonesian interpreter and saw the extent of her injuries, we upgraded the charges to a felony," Stewart said.

Ismiyati told deputies she "couldn't take it anymore."

On a police operator's audiotape released by the sheriff's office, Ismiyati can be heard crying hysterically in the background while a neighbor talks to a dispatcher.

"Help me. Help me. The boss pushed me down the stairs," Ismiyati told the dispatcher through an Indonesian translator on the telephone.

Ismiyati was treated at a hospital and released, but she was bruised badly and is walking with a cane, Sgt. Ken Mohler said.

When deputies went to the princess' apartment Friday, she dnied striking or pushing the maid, according to deputies' reports.

Deputies contacted the Saudi Embassy in Washington after al-Saud told them she had diplomatic immunity and embassy officials backed her claim.

"The information that we received from the Saudi Embassy was inaccurate information," Stewart said. "The information they gave to us was not the truth."

No one answered the phone at the embassy press office Tuesday evening.

U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Tuesday that he was unaware that al-Saud had been granted diplomatic immunity, but added he didn't think the episode would affect relations between the two nations.

"I don't think we can take one case and believe that it really disrupts that whole relationship," Boucher said.

In 1995, another Saudi princess was accused of beating her servants while visiting Orlando. Princess Maha Al-Sudairi, wife of the heir to the Saudi throne, reportedly beat a servant suspected of stealing $200,000 in cash and jewelry in front of off-duty deputies providing her security. The deputies were later disciplined for not stopping the beating, not writing a report about it and not investigating a tip that another servant had been beaten.


And a sideline about the case:

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/04/princess-files.html

And another from Little Green Footballs:

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - An Egyptian couple living in southern California have pleaded guilty to slavery charges involving a now-16 year old girl they forcibly kept working in their home for two years, according to US attorneys Friday.

Abdelnasser Eid Youssef Ibrahim, 45 and his ex-wife, Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd Motelib, 43, are accused of harboring an illegal alien, obtaining labor by force, and conspiracy.

The girl worked as nanny and housekeeper for a family of seven up to 16 hours a day, seven days a week. “She had to work all day long,” Assistant US Attorney Robert Keenan said. “They used unlawful forms of coersion such as hitting and slapping, and threats of arrest by the police if she ever went outside on her own.”

The girl began working for the couple as a domestic servant in Egypt in 1999, and the couple brought her into the United States in 2000 where her forced servitude continued for two years.

The couple kept the girl in an unfurnished, unventilated, and unlighted garage that building inspectors deemed “deplorable.”

The Los Angeles Times helpfully informs us that this practice is quite common back in Egypt: Pair Admit Enslaving Girl, 12.

The case shed light on a common though illegal practice in Egypt in which children from poor families are sent to work for the well-to-do. The servants, known as Khadamah, usually range in age from 9 to 18 and often are forced to sleep in kitchens.

Two of the girl’s older sisters had worked in Ibrahim’s home in Egypt before he moved to Irvine in 2000. Ibrahim caught one of the sisters stealing, prosecutors said. He threatened to have her charged with theft unless the girl’s impoverished parents sent their 10-year-old daughter to work as his family maid in the United States. The girl’s parents signed a document offering her for a “10-year sponsorship” with the family in exchange for about $30 a month, Keenan said.

“It works out well for everyone except the girl. Her parents are happy, the defendants are happy, and she has 10 years of her life flushed away,” Keenan said.

The girl came to the U.S. on a visitor’s visa that expired six months after she came to Irvine.

At Thursday’s hearing in Santa Ana, Ibrahim wore a gray suit and a somber expression. Motelib wore a white head scarf, a pink blouse, white high heels and a black skirt that touched the ground.

Quoted: Interesting Blog Article www.danielpipes.org/pics/large/art_2687_2.jpg Homaidan Ali Al-Turki and family

I think the little girl onthe right is gonna be a handful......

if she can keep her head that long!

Quoted: We must appreciate their cultural diversity.

BS!
I'm a lib, but I aint having any of it.

Those Fscks should be in jail for a long long time.

Quoted: I think we should send them both back to Saudi.....strapped to the nose cone of an ICBM.

Sounds like a good plan.

Quoted: BS! I'm a lib, but I aint having any of it. Those Fscks should be in jail for a long long time.

Aren't you culturally biased? What is considered to be immoral behavior in one culture is considered to be perfectly acceptable in another...

After all...isn't Moral Relativsm one of the main tenets of contemporary liberalism?

The un-named suburb just has to be Aurora

Quoted: <snip> The woman slept on a mattress on the basement floor and was paid less than $2 a day, the FBI said. <snip> Al-Turki, a linguist, worked at a Denver publishing and translating company and was a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado.

Highest paid research assistant at CU!

 They photographed this poor woman without her hijjab !. This is like stripping her naked !. Someone call the ACLU someone who gives a shit

Quoted: Quoted: BS! I'm a lib, but I aint having any of it. Those Fscks should be in jail for a long long time. Aren't you culturally biased? What is considered to be immoral behavior in one culture is considered to be perfectly acceptable in another... After all...isn't Moral Relativsm one of the main tenets of contemporary liberalism?

Damn right I'm culturally biased.
& your comment is making me think - nice!
My knee jerk reaction was "yeah but certain things (eg slavery) are too heinous too fall under moral relativism.
My second thought was "but some people feel about abortion the way I feel about slavery"

internal contradiction systems locking up!

Now I'm screwed!  Good comment.