Abused women share stories in bid to win justice

ASIAN women who have endured beatings, rape and other abuse with little hope of justice shared their stories yesterday before a symbolic court that pledged to take into political action.

Gathered in an auditorium in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka some of the dozen ‘witnesses’ cried inconsolably as they spoke to an all-woman jury that included South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

One woman, Sri Lankan Inoka Priyangani, told of how she travelled to Kuwait to work as a maid and send money to her family back home. Soon after she reached the oil-rich emirate, she was gang-raped.