Their relatives have requested the concerned authorities to save their lives from the severity of punishment inside the prison.

 

Family members of Ashok Rai from Sankhuwasabha Yaphu-5 today organised a press conference in Dhankuta headquarters and informed about their condition. According to Ashok's sister Sita, he had gone to Saudi Arab four years ago through Brilliant Manpower in Kathmandu. Sita said, "My brother is in jail since five months and we have heard that he is sick." "I request the government to rescue him from jail and make the provision to let him return to Nepal," she added.

 

Along with Ashok, Nabin Katwal of Dhankuta', Nabin Budhamagar of Rolpa, Khum Bahadur Magar of Myagdi, Khemlal Pun of Butwal and Bikram Shrestha are in Daman Prison, Sita said.

"Three years ago, when our first Daman-based company did not give our salary, we left the company and joined Nura University as security guards, but the previous company sent police after us saying we had left the company against the agreement," Sita quoted Ashok as saying."We can use telephone only for a limited time and they do not provide us proper food, " Ashok was quoted.

Sita has appealed to the Foreign Ministry, Saudi Arabia-based Nepali Embassy among other concerned bodies through media and human rights activists to save the lives of Nepalis languishing in Daman prison.

 

According to the memorandum distributed in the press conference, Brilliant Manpower's director Uday Raj Pandey was trying to free Ashok.