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118306
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INDONESIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON READY TO SUPPORT YOYOH IN COURT
London, April 23 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian embassy in London is ready to support a migrant worker at the Central London Employment Tribunal, Victoria House in Kingsway, London, on Friday.
Yoyoh binti Salim Udin (39) from West Java, a domestic helper in London who had tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, had sued her employer at the court for treating her as a slave.
The Indonesian embassy cared for the fate of Indonesians in the UK and Ireland even during the delays of flights due to the volcanic crisis, Councellor for Protocol and Consular Affairs at the Indonesian embassy Dwiky Miftach told Antara in London Thursday.
Dwiky said that since April this year, the embassy had also visited Yoyoh at a hospital in Chelsea dan Westminster in London.
At that time Yoyoh was in a critical condition, he said, but unfortunately she failed to contact the embassy after checking out, because the embassy would monitor the development of her case and also attend the court session on Friday.
Yoyoh was accepted as domestic helper at house of Firas Pasha and his wife Lina Chamsi in Kensington, with wages of only five poundsterlings (Rp 75,000) per day
Yoyoh told the previous court that she was searched after accused of stealing an earring, then locked in the flat.
Yoyoh reported her case to the police saying that she had been treated unfairly, and denied of her wages.
In the meantime the family`s lawyer, Jonathan Goldberg, said n Yoyoh had never been treated as a slave. Her employers had even bought her fancy goods had like body moisturizers. "This is not a way of treating a slave, is it?" Goldberg said.
Yoyoh arrived in London for work at a five-room flat of the Pasha family at Portland Place in the fall of 2004.
(U-ZG)
Yoyoh binti Salim Udin (39) from West Java, a domestic helper in London who had tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, had sued her employer at the court for treating her as a slave.
The Indonesian embassy cared for the fate of Indonesians in the UK and Ireland even during the delays of flights due to the volcanic crisis, Councellor for Protocol and Consular Affairs at the Indonesian embassy Dwiky Miftach told Antara in London Thursday.
Dwiky said that since April this year, the embassy had also visited Yoyoh at a hospital in Chelsea dan Westminster in London.
At that time Yoyoh was in a critical condition, he said, but unfortunately she failed to contact the embassy after checking out, because the embassy would monitor the development of her case and also attend the court session on Friday.
Yoyoh was accepted as domestic helper at house of Firas Pasha and his wife Lina Chamsi in Kensington, with wages of only five poundsterlings (Rp 75,000) per day
Yoyoh told the previous court that she was searched after accused of stealing an earring, then locked in the flat.
Yoyoh reported her case to the police saying that she had been treated unfairly, and denied of her wages.
In the meantime the family`s lawyer, Jonathan Goldberg, said n Yoyoh had never been treated as a slave. Her employers had even bought her fancy goods had like body moisturizers. "This is not a way of treating a slave, is it?" Goldberg said.
Yoyoh arrived in London for work at a five-room flat of the Pasha family at Portland Place in the fall of 2004.
(U-ZG)
