The article discusses the harrowing experiences of Selestine Kemoli, who fled to the Kenyan Embassy in Riyadh to escape severe abuse from her employer. Upon seeking help from Robinson Juma Twanga, the Kenyan labor attache, she was met with further exploitation as Twanga demanded sexual favors in return for assistance. Multiple women shared similar accounts of being pressured into sex work or coerced into providing money in exchange for help. The article highlights systemic abuse and exploitation of vulnerable women by embassy officials when they seek refuge from abusive situations.
Selestine Kemoli fled to the Kenyan Embassy in Riyadh in 2020, terrified and desperate... she was being abused. She told the embassy's labor attache that her boss slashed her breasts with a paring knife, forced her to drink urine and raped her.
Robinson Juma Twanga... offered to help, she said, but with a catch. 'I will sleep with you, just the same way your boss has slept with you,' she remembers him saying.
Multiple women... told The New York Times that when they fled abuse in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Twanga demanded sex or money, or pressured them to go into sex work to pay for a ticket home.
Lawyers say they have collected similar accounts from numerous women involving other embassy officials... how these officials exploit women at their most vulnerable moments.
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