Stories of atrocities being carried out on Indian workers in the Gulf countries have unfortunately become so regular that it doesn't shock us anymore. For ages now, the working class are being harassed and tortured by their employers. In fact, very recently an Indian domestic help's hand was chopped off by her employer for trying to escape torture. Things are just as regressive as ever. Now comes a report of a youth, hailing from the Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh, being tortured, sodomised and starved by his employer in Saudi Arabia. A youth named Mohammad Shami was reportedly forced to survive without food for days, tortured, even used as a sex slave by his employer according to a report by India Today.

Shami's mother and brother have been waiting to hear his voice and learn more about his condition there. They are desperately trying to get him out of the country as soon as possible although we are yet to hear anything on this issue from our Ministry of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj.

Shami went to Saudi to work as a cleaner in a mosque for which he was promised a monthly sum of 1200 Rial as salary. But instead, he was brutalised, tortured with iron rods and used for sexual pleasure by his employer. Like most of the workers in the Gulf region, Shami's passport had been confiscated by the employer on his arrival. Unable to withstand the brutality anymore, he called his brother Zaki in India, begging him to get him out of there. Zaki told India Today that he had gone to Saudi to get his brother back but he too was tortured and forced to return home, alone.