Rwanda: Human Trafficking Victim Narrates Ordeal in Kuwait

4 November 2019

In April 2018, she was enticed by a trafficking agent in Kigali she only knew as Mugeni, with promises of a Rwf300,000 monthly salary at a supermarket in Kuwait.

Upon arrival, however, Umutesi was sold as a slave. For six months, she worked as a domestic servant in three different homes. She was always subjected to conditions of forced labor, such as restrictions on movement, unlawful withholding of passports, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse.

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