A Saudi employer offered his Sri Lankan housemaid for sale for SR25,000 (Dh25,00) in an advertisement he published on a local auction website.

 

'Sabq' newspaper said the employer wrote in the ads that he wanted to end the contract with the 30-year-old maid and that she wants to work for another employer in the Gulf Kingdom for one more year before returning to her home country.

 

“He said in the advertisement that the maid is good in dealing with children.

 

"He said he is ready to give her up for SR25,000,” the paper said without naming the employer.

 

It quoted the Saudi Human Rights Commission as saying in a recent statement that such advertisements have become widespread in Saudi Arabia and that they amount to “trading in humans.”

(emirates247.com)