Cambodian Embassy ordered to investigate after two repatriated maids claim detainees have died from torture at the Juru migrant detention depot

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PHNOM PENH: Two Cambodian maids released from the Juru detention depot in Penang, Malaysia, have alleged torture of detainees by depot staff. One of them claimed she knew of at least three detainees who shared the same block with her dying of injuries from beatings.The Cambodia Daily reported that the Cambodian Embassy in Malaysia had been ordered to investigate the allegations and to find out if any more of its citizens were in Juru.

 

The report said the allegations had arisen just as Cambodia and Malaysia had agreed on reopening the flow of Cambodian maids to Malaysia. Five years ago Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen stopped the sending of maids to Malaysia following numerous allegations of maid abuse by Malaysian recruitment agencies and Malaysian households. However, some women had gone to Malaysia illegally to find work. The Cambodia Daily report said the two nations had worked out a deal to send maids to Malaysia but that the Cambodian Government had refused to offer details or release a copy of the memorandum of understanding that it had signed with Malaysia in December.

 

The report said two women were repatriated from Malaysia in mid-June by Cambodian labour rights organisation Central, which paid for their flights home. According to the report, one of the women had said she had been working as a domestic maid in Malaysia for nearly two years when she was arrested in January, after fleeing the physical abuse of her last employer. She was sent to Juru. “At the prison, I was beaten and kicked for not understanding the prison officers well,” she was quoted as saying by Cambodia Daily.

 

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Foreign Ministry denies maid’s claims of abuse

Wed, 17 August 2016

Jack Davies

 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted allegations by a repatriated maid that Cambodians are being tortured to death at a detention centre in Malaysia.

In mid-June, NGO Central paid for the repatriation of two maids detained for working without papers or passports in Malaysia, according to executive director Moeun Tola.

One maid gave harrowing testimony – reported in the Cambodia Daily on Monday – of her time at the notorious Juru detention centre, where she claimed to have seen five Cambodians die of torture and that another four or five remained in custody.

 

READ MORE http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-ministry-denies-maids-claims-abuse

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Malaysia, isn't that were the head guy in charge stole a billion dollars ? And got away with it. Anyting is possible in that country, beating to death a few Cambodian women would not seem out of the ordinary there.