Source: Gulf News
- Image Credit: MCT
- Saudi princess Meshael Alayban (right) listens to Arabic interpreter Ahmed Mekhemar during her appearance in Santa Ana, California court on July 11, 2013.
Santa Ana: A human-trafficking case against a Saudi princess in the US has been dismissed.
The surprise announcement came on Friday as 42-year-old Meshael Al Ayban was to face arraignment on a charge that could have fetched her as many as 12 years in prison.
The charge was filed after a Kenyan maid alleged Meshael had taken away her passport and forced her to work long hours without pay.
Prosecutors now say further investigation did not corroborate the allegations.
Categories: Americas
Money makes the mare go. No surprise.
Actually Her Royal Highness just treated her ‘domestic workers’ in the USA the same way that they are all treated in Saudi Arabia. That was wrong. The treatment of workers in the Arab countries should improve. But, yes, it is not ‘trafficking’. It is just ‘bad treatment’. I have seen some Princes who treat their ‘help’ in a decent way. There are all kinds of people in all kinds of classes…