Iraq: Kenyan worker kidnapped and raped by her employer

On Wednesday, a Kenyan worker in Baghdad said that she had been raped by her employer.

For its part, the news site 'Al Ghad Presse' reported that the victim was headed by a human rights organization to file its version of the incident. The complainant claimed that she had been sequestrated and tortured for days by her employer and three other individuals after she requested leave to return to her country and attend her daughter's funeral.

The worker stated that after being subjected to continual harassment by the employer and objecting to it, she was eventually confined and tortured. She added that earlier this month, he had purposely emptied his office to sequester her there the day before the incident. Several reports prepared by human rights organizations raise numerous cases of rape against foreign women workers and especially Kenyans.

Employers of recruitment offices benefit from the fact that Kenya does not have an embassy in Iraq to exploit women workers in cases of sexual exploitation and human trafficking.