TNAG-2085-FCO40-2970-Allegations-of-ill-treatment-towards-workers-from-the-Philip-1990 — Page 18

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. They

are

employed by foreigners living in Hong kon, and Hong kong chinese. Now I have sketched in the background let me continue

my story.

with

My

new

friend told me he discovered

quite by accident

that a

Philipino

woman

he was with had huge and painful bruises on her body. She did not complain

any bitterness or

anger.

On

or show

questioning her The found that her chinese employer had done this to her. On further enquiry

he discovered

that this kind of maltreatment, and other kinds of harassment, were not uncommon amongst those women

those women having chinese employers. My first reaction was to ask why they

to the police. The answer is that

did not

go

when they did not only was

nothing done, but, adding insult to injury, they were deemed to have broken their contracts and sent back

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