SAUDI ARABIA PROSTITUTION FACTS

In mid-1997 hundreds of Indonesian women, most under twenty years old, were in prostitution in Saudi Arabia. (Mien Sugandhi, Minister for Women’s Affairs in Indonesia reports, "Hundreds of RI’s Women Believed To Work As Prostitutes in Saudi Arabia," Kompas, 7 February 1997)

Thailand’s President Wan Muhammad Noor Matha said that Bangkok should make it clear to Saudi officials that the Thai government wants justice in a case in which nine Thai women were forced into prostitution in Saudi Arabia. Wan Noor said he was confident the Saudi authorities would co-operate with their Thai counterparts. ("Wan Noor urges Riyadh to punish wrongdoers," The Nation, 18 July 1998)........

The story of two Thai women : Two Thai women forced trafficked to Saudi Arabia have come forward leading to the surrender of their trafficker, another Thai woman named Suna Thianmanee. Both women had contacted Suna in hopes of finding high paying work in Saudi Arabia, but instead were forced into prostitution. The women were forced to travel, in a tiny compartment below the truck's undercarriage or empty oil tank of the vehicle tanker in the scorching sun, from one construction site to another and to offer their sexual services. Upon arriving in the Saudi capital, they were forced to share a five-metre-by-four-metre room with seven other girls, one of whom was Suna's sister. They were told that they would be engaged in prostitution, not restaurant helpers as promised, if they wanted to live. One of the women said that all nine girls, including herself and Suna's sister, had been wrongfully lured into the sex trade. Each girl had to service four to ten customers a day. Suna would earn about 200 to 800 riyals (Baht 2,000-Baht 8000) per visit while the girls would get free room and boarding and earn occasional tips. In five months, Suna was able to expand her brothel by renting a two-story, three-bedroom house. Most customers were Thai and Filipino workers and some Saudi citizens. (Preecha Sa-Ardsorn, "Saudi woman procurer surrenders before police," The Nation, 19 July 1998)

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