Another Filipina killed in Kuwait
Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:39:00 +0000
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday strongly condemned the killing of a Filipina domestic worker in Kuwait allegedly by the employer’s wife.
The DFA said the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait is coordinating closely with Kuwaiti authorities to ensure that justice will be served to the unidentified victim.
“The continuing incidents of violence and abuse of Filipino domestic workers in Kuwait violates the spirit of the agreement signed in May 2018 that seeks to promote and protect their welfare,” the DFA said in a statement.
The DFA has summoned the Kuwaiti Ambassador in Manila, Musaed Saleh Ahmad Althwaikh, “to express the Philippine government’s outrage over the seeming lack of protection of our domestic workers at the hands of their employers.”
The DFA also pressed for “complete transparency in the investigation of the case and to call for the swift prosecution of the perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law.
In February 2018, the body of Joanna Demafelis was found stuffed inside a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. A Syrian court found her employer guilty of murder.
Bernadette E. Tamayo