cruelty
Nov 11 2008, Maya

Alemintu Girma Hailu, 19-year-old Ethiopian woman, who came to work as a Domestic worker for a family in UAE, fell ill after a few days of her arrival due to heat stroke.

She spent two months in the hospital in coma before she died on October 9...

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