Domestic tortured, sentenced her Employer

"Abuses, there, and even if Erwiana won in court, abuse will continue if the laws do not change."

Erwiana is a survivor and justice has to be made to him. Become a symbol of foreign domestic workers exploited and abused, this young woman comes to see his former employing sentenced to 6 years imprisonment and 1700 euro fine for having beaten, starved and threatened ... This is a court Hong Kong court that rendered the verdict.

The employing a housewife, mother of two children, aged 44, scalded his employee, hit her broom, she was deprived of sleep, had confiscated his papers, threatened to kill his family ...

She was found guilty of 18 charges of Erwiana and one of his employees, Tutik. She had pleaded not guilty.

The tribubal felt she "did not show any compassion."

"Such behavior could be avoided if the servants were not forced to live in the home of their employers" by their visa, noted the judge.

It asked the Hong Kong authorities as Indonesia opened an investigation into the working conditions in general foreign domestic workers in the former British colony.

She also highlighted the costs "significant" imposed by domestic placement agencies in their home countries, costs are then deducted from low wages:

"Here there is an operating element. "They can not leave or change employers because they must repay their debt."

They also have only two weeks to find an employer if they are returned to their country.

A demonstration denouncing the enslavement of foreign workers was organized in front of the building:

"Abuses, there, and even if Erwiana won in court, abuse will continue if the laws do not change," said Vicky Casia itself housekeeper for 20 years.

Hong Kong has more than 300,000 foreign domestic workers. These are mostly women and half of Indonesian who see the promise of good wages placement agencies become a nightmare. According to Amnesty International, they are often paid late and less well than expected, do not sleep very little, are malnourished, and in the worst cases, abused. Deprived of their identity papers and living in the homes of employers, they find themselves trapped.

Erwiana had managed to flee in January 2014, after eight months of violence. She had been hospitalized in serious condition in Sragen, on the Indonesian island of Java.

The case, to international attention, took a diplomatic turn when former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had called himself the servant promising that "justice would be done."