COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will gradually stop sending house maids abroad, mainly to the Middle East, due to rights abuses, social costs and a local labor shortage, government spokesman Rajitha ...

A Sri Lankan maid returned from her job in Saudi Arabia with 24 nails inside her body - the result of torture by the family who employed her, a doctor and government official said. L.G. Ariyawathi's ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan maid returned from her job in Saudi Arabia with 24 nails inside her body — the result of torture by the family who employed her, a doctor ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan maid who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. L.G.

The married woman, who had been working as a domestic helper in Riyadh since 2013, was convicted by a Saudi court in August. Her partner, also a Sri Lankan migrant worker, was given a lesser ...