2 OFWs jailed in Saudi for owning condom
By Dennis Carcamo, PhilStar.com
October 25, 2012

MANILA, Philippines – Two overseas Filipino workers were sent to jail when Saudi Arabia’s cultural police, locally known as Muttawa, found from one of them a condom in a wallet, a migrants’ rights group said on Thursday.

Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator John Monterona said last August 31, the Muttawas raided the two OFWs’ accommodation adjacent to Riyadh’s commercial district and arbitrarily searched all their personal belongings including their wallets where a condom was found on one of the wallets.

“‘Geron’ and ‘Roy’ (not their real names), who were able to speak over the phone to their kin, said they both were shocked and furious that their accommodation was raided and on that same day were sent to jail allegedly for possession of a condom and pornographic video stored in a cell phone,” Monterona added.

Monterona said the two OFWs were detained in Al-hair jail also in Riyadh.

“The two OFWs were charged of prostitution, a crime punishable with six months to one year plus a hundred of lashes, if proven guilty,”he added.

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