MANILA,
Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president said Thursday that a ban on
the deployment of workers to Kuwait, where a Filipina was found dead in
a freezer, will continue and could be expanded to other countries where
Filipino workers suffer "human degradation."
President
Rodrigo Duterte made the remarks after attending the wake of Joanna
Demafelis in the central Philippine town of Sara. He said he intends to
file criminal charges against her employers, who are being hunted by
Kuwaiti authorities.
Demafelis's
body was found stuffed in a food freezer on Feb. 6 in a Kuwait City
apartment where it had reportedly been kept for more than a year.
Duterte has said her body bore torture marks and there were indications
she was strangled.
"The
ban stays, no deployment of Filipinos whatsoever in Kuwait," Duterte
said outside the wake, where steamers and shirts worn by mourners bore
messages demanding justice for the maid's death. The ban applies only to
new Kuwait-bound workers and the thousands already there, mostly maids,
can continue working.
Source: Yahoo News
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