Wednesday, October 31, 2007

4,000 Indians jailed in Dubai for demanding better pay

Around 4,000 Indians working in the Jebel Ali Industrial area in Dubai have been jailed for allegedly protesting violently for better pay.


The Indian Consul for Labour and Welfare has confirmed that none of the workers have been deported yet. However the management of the company have agreed to send the labourers back to work if they promised not to indulge in violence again. The police in Dubai had filmed some of the workers inciting violence, and those workers would be deported. Meanwhile the Indian Consul General in the United Arab Emirates is in touch with Government authorities there. The labourers, most of them from Rajasthan, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, had struck work and resorted to violence last weekend over poor working conditions and low pay.


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