- Title: Dispatches: A Saudi Slave Aka Jessica
- Date: 21st February 1996
- Summary: The documentary series goes under cover in Saudi Arabia to reveal the brutal reality of life for thousands of immigrant workers,filming secretly inside the country and recording in detail one Filipina woman's testimony of her experience at the hands of Saudi families and authorities. Features contributions from `Jessica' and also Nasser Mustapha (Philippines Welfare Officer). It would appear that the West chooses to ignore these human rights violations as Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil supplier and a powerful force in the Gulf.
- Description:Filmed covertly in Saudi Arabia,tells the story of one of the 2,000 Filipinos who leave their country every year to work abroad. The woman,whose youngest daughter is in need of a heart operation,left her family two years earlier to work in Saudi Arabia. She ran away from her first employer,who not only failed to pay her but subjected her to abuse and took away her passport. For the next two years,she was passed from household to household,working as an unpaid maid. Eventually,she had to turn to illegal means to escape from her desperate situation. Broadcast on Channel Four in February 1996 in the `Dispatches' series.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:21/02/1996
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s