Indonesian maid, Nour Miyati, whose gangrenous fingers were amputated after she was brutally beaten and locked in a bathroom by her Saudi employer.

Verma was rescued by the BCHR’s Migrant Workers’ Group (MWG) in October 2003 with severe facial bruising, head wounds and burns on her body. She filed a police complaint against her employer and in later interviews with Tribune, said she was under pressure to withdraw the case but would not do so. Varma’s case was a classic example of the slow and uncertain justice process that abused domestic women workers face in Bahrain.

• BCHR stresses “fast-track” justice for abused women, 3 July 2004