Posted on 03/30/2005 2:55:34 PM PST by Shermy
BOSTON— A Saudi princess was arrested Wednesday on charges she forced two women to be her domestic servants and threatened to harm them if they tried to leave, according to federal prosecutors.
Hana Al Jader, a Saudi national, is married to Prince Mohamed Bin Turki Alsaud, according to a source close to the case, speaking on condition of anonymity. It wasn't immediately clear what relationship, if any, the couple has to the Saudi royal family.
Al Jader, 39, is accused of confiscating the passports of two Indonesian women who worked as domestic servants at the family's homes in Arlington and Winchester between February 2003 and November 2004.
The princess led the women to believe that they would suffer "serious harm" if they didn't perform the work, according to a copy of an indictment charging her with forced labor, visa fraud and other charges.
Al Jader paid the women $300 a month and forced them to work long hours, authorities said. However, to obtain visa extensions for the women, she allegedly provided U.S. immigration officials with fake contracts that said the women were earning $1,500 a month and working only eight hours a day.
FBI agents arrested Al Jader at her Winchester home on Wednesday morning. Hours later, U.S. Magistrate Joyce London Alexander ordered her held without bail pending a detention hearing Friday.
"She has a serious risk of flight," prosecutor Theodore Merritt said.
Al Jader's lawyer, James Michael Merberg, said Saudi consulate officials from New York and Washington, D.C., plan to travel to Boston for Friday's hearing.
A spokeswoman for the Saudi Royal Embassy in Washington declined to comment Wednesday.
Merberg wouldn't confirm that Al Jader and her husband are Saudi royalty. Samantha Martin, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, also wouldn't comment on Al Jader's family ties.
"It seems to be a very fine family from Saudi Arabia," Merberg said following the hearing.
In court, Merritt recited the maximum sentences for each of the charges against Al Jader, but didn't disclose any details about the investigation.
Al Jader faces up to 20 years in prison for two counts of forced labor, 15 years for two counts of visa fraud and 10 years for two counts of harboring an alien.
Al Jader doesn't have a criminal record in Massachusetts, according to Alexander.
Martin wouldn't discuss the whereabouts of Al Jader's domestic servants, who are identified only as "Tri" and "Ro" in court papers.
Hence the popularity of the quote "First, shoot all the lawyers".
A wonderful book was written about a poor girl who escaped being a house slave of an Arab family in Brittain. The name of the book is SLAVE.
Here is the URL for the book at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586482122/qid=1112223832/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-4840146-3536808?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Saudi elites are used to importing their slaves maids and taking away their passports, rights, and dignity.
Luckily for these imported maid/slaves, they were not in Saudi, where a lecherous male Saudi slave owner can simply accuse them of theft, causing them to end up at Chop Chop Square as one of the main attractions after Friday jummah...
Good grief.
Tsunamis, Saudi princesses, haven't the Indonesians suffered enough?
She apparently was easily corrupted.
The Islamic Religious Freakdom of Saudi Arabia (aka KSA) has to be the worse nation on the planet.
But...but...the Saudis are our "partners" in the War on Terror, don'cha know?
"It seems to be a very fine family from Saudi Arabia," Merberg said following the hearing.
Mispelling "sand" for "family"? Tsk, tsk
Saudi cleric Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of country's religious curriculum:(Note, MEMRI carried the original translation.)"Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam."
His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the United States.
Al Fawzan – a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body – says Muslims who contend Islam is against slavery "are ignorant, not scholars."
"They are merely writers," he said, according to SIA. "Whoever says such things is an infidel."
Saudi "princess?" Shouldn't that be "Saudi illiterate desert nomad camel and goat herder jumped up to princess since oil was discovered and extracted by Westerners in the mid-20th century?"
I guess the real title is too long. Agreed, these fake "royals" are the foulest scum, and a den of perverted thieves to boot. The Riyadh Hillbillies.
It appears that slavery is okay so long as one is not racist about it.
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