International labor and human rights violation in Kuwait
Dear Sir ,
I am presenting today one of the million cases happening here in Kuwait every day showing violation of International labor organization, human rights ,united nation rights,modern slavery ,Human trafficking and even rights according to local laws in Kuwait. My case will show only a small part of corruption and illegal acts done here by sponsors which is supported totally by every effort from ministry of labor and ministry of interior by all means. Majority of expats here had faced one or more of these corrupted environment which is governed unfortunately by laws here in Kuwait and if the laws are not enough for the sponsor to violate all international laws ,sure the ministry of labor and ministry of interior will be open to bypass their own rules just to satisfy the savage sponsors.

My name is Dr. / Mohamed Ahmed Wagiuh Mahran and I am a
Pharmacist and holding MBA from the University of Leicester in Britain.
I am Egyptian and was working with Kuwaiti Company named as Jothen from 28/5/2006 as a manager where the owner of the company and partner and the CEO / Abdel Majid Turki Madi (Lebanese nationality) breached in various forms the Kuwaiti law by using his influence and contacts to perform violations of the law of the State of Kuwait, both within the Ministry of Labor or the Ministry of Interior, where he carried out the following for more than a full year in which I suffered for more than 400 days without any income or work:
1 –The company had caused me a total disability of 15% of the total capacity of the body towards me as stated in the report of work-related injury of the Department of Occupational Health on 26/2/2009 where I was granted paid sick leave of two months where my hand was in plaster followed by six months of physical therapy .I did not receive approval from the Department of Health to return to work fully and to stop the therapy except in its final report dated 18/10/2009 .The company refused to pay any salary from the date of injury from 26/2/2009 till the final report on 18 / 10/2009 in a violation of the Kuwaiti Labor Law (document No. 1).
2 - The company during the treatment period without any reasons fired me with unfair dismissal on 6/6/2009 in violation of the Kuwaiti Labor Law and the company received full custody and the discharge of my conscience entirely on 06/06/2009 (document No. 2).
3 - The company refused to hand over any of my receivables financial amicably ,petitioned and other rights of workers during the period of treatment .So I was obliged on 13/6/2009 to go to the Director of Labor Relations Unit in Hawalli to file a case with the file number 616 / 2009 (document No. 3)
4 –I filed a complaint to transfer residency from my old sponsor to new sponsor during the period of treatment to the director of labor relations unit Hawalli file number 604/2009 dated 29/7/2009 and the investigation was completed on 17/8/2009.The company was called and a legal opinion was written, but I was informed on 27/9/2009 that nobody is having access to the file as it disappeared in mysterious circumstances and no one knows its place (document No. 4)
5 - The company committed another violation of the law as they filed an absence claim case on 18/6/2009 with the book number 1098, which is after the date the of my complaint filed on 13/6/2009 (document No. 5)
6 – I filed a complaint to the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Affairs and Labor to investigate this violation of the law and the second party was called for hearing and requested a statement from head of labor disputes in Hawalli named MR / Ahmed Abdul Rasoul as at 15/07/2009 (document No. 6)
7 - MR / Ahmed Abdul Rasoul, head of labor disputes in Hawalli said that the complaint was submitted on 14/06/2009 in violation of the document where the book editor proved that the absence claim was submitted on 18/6/2009 not 14/6/2009. Then he said that I did not come the first hearing on 28/6/2009 and that the company attended and therefore he decided to close the file so that the absence claim can be accepted on 29/6/2009 which is again a violation of the truth , reality and the documents . Investigation had proved that I had attended the hearing on 28/6/2009 and the company did not attend which is opposite to what inferred from Mr / Ahmed Abdel Rasoul.He even signed a final request to the company as final hearing on 15/07/2009 and signed by the Mr / Ahmed Abdul Rasoul confirming that I was present while the company was absent (document No. 7)
8 – The investigation concluded after so long on 23/11/2009 after the start of the investigation since four months(on 15/07/2009) that the absence claim was false. (Document No. 8)
9 - The administration of labor relations refused to give me any written official document to be handled to the official authorities to lift the unjustice and absence claim in violation to the laws of Kuwait and also refused to send official letter to the Ministry of interior to delete the absence claim from their records and its consequences. (Document No. 9)
10 – I followed up with my cases file no 616/2006 and transfer and cancellation file number 604/2009, but both files had disappeared completely from the Labor Office . (Document No. 10)
11 – I filed a new complaint to the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor affairs and I requested that all files and cases should be delivered to the court but they do not exist at all. (Document No. 11)
12 – No action was made against the head of labor disputes named Mr / Ahmed Abdul Rasoul or deleting the absence claim or even sending official notice to Ministry of interior to delete the absence claim . (Document No. 12)
13 – I filed another complaint to the Under-Secretary of Ministry of Labor affairs and they converted only one case number 616/2009 to where the investigation ended on 28/7/2009 to the court, but was referring to eliminate on 12/10/2009 after three months after the time from the disappearance of the file in mysterious way and after the end of the investigation. (Document No. 13)
14 - As the transfer of residency number 604/2009, was granted an official briefing reporters on 27/9/2009 that the file was still under investigation although the investigation was completed in 7 / 2009 and was informed that the file is missing and that I have to wait until the appearance of the file .
(Document number 14)
15 –I filed a complaint to the Director of Labor Relations Mr / Jassim Hamoud in an attend to find my old files but he asked me to file new complaints instead of the files that disappeared.So I filed new case with a new number 986/2009 dated 21/10/2009. I also filed case with file number 227/2010 for working for another employer and it was approved but the labor office refused to give me permission for work as there is no passport and due to multiple illegal reports that I was absent by my sponsor which is illegal as all were filed after I already filed my case(document No. 15)
16 - During this period, the company in a new and continuous violation of the law filed multiple illegal reports that I was absent by my sponsor which is illegal as all(without exception) were filed after I already filed my case after the date my complaint which was dated 13/06/2009 .The absence claims were having the following dates: 14/6/2009, 18/6/2009, 15/10/2009, 27 / 10/2009 this together with a number of cases which I lack documents for them but all were in violation of the law because they are all after the date of the complaint. (Document No. 16)
17 – I filed a complaint for the fifth time to the Undersecretary of the Ministry of affairs so I can work with another sponsor on the basis of the complaint No. 604/2009, which disappeared or the approved case No. 227/2010 filed the complaint but, as usual nothing was done. (Document No. 17)
18 - I got the approval for transfer to another work as of 5/4/2010 and finally emerged as a result the complaint submitted by the cancellation and conversion since more than eight months of approval of the transfer , which was completed and agreed on 23/8/2009 but file did not appear except after more than ten months. (Document No. 18)
19 - When I try to transfer ,I was surprised by presence of new absence claim stamped from labor office on 27/10/2009 claiming that I was absent from 7/6/2009 and this document prevented me from transfer to a new work and that I am required to pay the establishment of violation from the date of 7/6/2009 till present date. (Document No. 19)
20 –I had filed a complaint on 12/4/2010 to the investigation Department in Salmiya to investigate the issue and proved to them that the absent claim was submitted by fraud papers and that it was false and should be deleted from system of ministry of labor and interior to allow me to move freely and work for another employer,return to my home country and that I should not be chased by police any more and they concluded the same at the end of their investigation. (Document No. 20)
21 - The triple Committee for investigating absence claims also reched to a conclusion that I have the right of transferring to another sponsor on 20/4/2010 and that the absent claim was submitted by fraud papers and that it was false and should be deleted from system of ministry of labor and interior to allow me to move freely and work for another employer,return to my home country and that I should not be chased by police any more . (Document No. 21)
22 – I tried to transfer to another sponsor, but ministry of labor prevented me from doing so as the absence claim is in the Ministry of Interior and recorded also in all labor offices in all governorates of Kuwait. I was not able to trabnsfer to another employer because ministry of labor refused to return my passport or give me a copy of their investigation conclusion to be able to transfer to another sponsor. (document No. 22)
23 – I even filed a complaint to the Office of the President of the Parliament Mr/Jasem alkharafy on 28/03/2010 against the use of the Lebanese guy owning the Kuwaiti company for the illegal tactics to force me to waive my receivables So, the President of the Parliament Mr/Jasem alkharafy sent a letter requesting a briefing from the Minister of Affairs within two weeks. (Document No. 23)
24 - After more than two months, the Ministry of Affairs responded to the letter the President of the Parliament that they had already eliminated the causes of all my complaints and deleted the absence claim and they allowed me to work with another sponsor on 20/04/2010, without any supporting documents attached to this statement despite the presentation of more than 20 document supporting my case which I had filed. (Document No. 24)
25 - I responded to this testimony and submitted documents on 30/5/2010 proving that the absence claim is still present and that the transfer to another sponsor never happened due to labor office prevented me from issuing any work permit and that none of my complaint was eliminated but on the contrary it was aggravated by the increase of this violation.These documents of course showed that all the letter of ministry of labor to the President of the Parliament was full of incorrect info and not one single info was right. (Document No. 25)
26 - The committee, headed by Mr/ Jassim Al-Hamoud after my complaint to the Parliamenton decided on 06/07/2010 to change its decision to the notice of departure and travel through the regular ways with no fingerprinting and that “wanted” notice one me should be removed immdeiatly. (Document No. 26)
27 - Ministry of Interior issued a letter mentioning that proves that the absent claim was submitted by fraud papers and that it was false and should be deleted from system of ministry of labor and interior to allow me to move freely and work for another employer,return to my home country and that I should not be chased by police (Document No. 27)
28 – I received a copy of the decision notice to leave, but when I went to the migration office in the capital, they refused to give me notice to leave and asked me to go to the CID for the fingerprinting and a statement as to the issues with no exemption from the fine residence by the maximum fine which is 600 Kuwaiti dinars, and that absence claim should remain although my residency expired at 11/06/2010. (Document No. 28)
29 - During this period I was not able to transfer my residence to work because the labor office declined to take any action to suspend the company file respond to return my passport I filed another case in court on 08/03/2010 file No. 373/2010, where the company denied the possession of the passport and the court issued its decision on 28 / 3 / 2010 that upon denial of company so no action should be taken against company to return the passport. It was astonishing that when I first made inquiries to investigation bureau in Salmiya 12/04/2010 and found the passport is in the file of absence complaint since 27/10/2009 which is a crime in the eyes of the law is Lying on the court and was proved by the Department of Investigation this documentation, but did not take any legal action, against the company or even give me document stating that the passport was in the file from 27/10/2009 . (Document No. 29)
30 - The Department for the investigation prepared a letter stating clearly that the absent claim was submitted by fraud papers and that it was false and should be deleted from system of ministry of labor and interior to allow me to move freely and work for another employer,return to my home country and that I should not be chased by police any more but the company stepped in again and the Department of Investigation refused to sign the book. (Document No. 30)
31 – A letter was prepared by the Department of Investigation directed to the central administration of migration for exemption from the fine and therefore what is built on falsehood is false and he told me Mr / Jawad Hussain, head of the investigation that he would send the letter dated 13/6/2010, but this never happened result of intervention by the company. (Document No. 31)
32 –A request came from Mr / Jawad Hussain, head of the investigation to me to report directly to him because he would put me in jail and kicked out of the country so I will not open my mouth again and ask for my rights in any court or parliament to keep me off the country illegally after the decision notice to leave on 13/6/2010 No. 424 and after the Office of the labor had to cancelled my work permit on 13/06/2010. (Document No. 32)

My requests:
1-Leave the country safely with no fingerprinting that will ban me from working inside any gulf country for ever and will appear in my criminal record as violation of work permit and violation of residency where all the official bodies proved that the absent claim was submitted by fraud papers and that it was false and should be deleted from system of ministry of labor and interior to allow me to move freely and work for another employer,return to my home country and that I should not be chased by police any more and they concluded the same at the end of their investigation.This should be done by the ministry of interior and ministry of labor.
2 – Fly as soon as possible to save my life and my security is at risk so as not to expose the illegal tactics of the company.
3 – Take the necessary actions to get back my passport and take from the Department of Investigation a document stating that the passport was in the file from 27/10/2009 not as the company claimed in front of the judge on 28/03/2010 that they do not have the passport or know where it is.
4 – I should also receive a compensation from both the ministry of interior and ministry of labor by paying me every salary I missed during these 16 months plus compensation for violationg my human rights and preventing me from work,return to home or even go out of home due to the absence claim which means that every police man in Kuwait is searching for me to be prisoned in jail for a crime I never committed and they themselves said that it was fraud.
Please accept my sincere greetings and appreciation
yours
Dr / Mohamed Ahmed Wagih AbdelAzeamm Mehran

civil id / 275020406545
Mobile / 94051059
Email:mohwagih@hotmail.com

Owner of the company / Abdul Majid Madi (Lebanese), T / 99639929
Representative of the company / Hussein Diab (Lebanese) - T / 67766516
Civil ID of the institution 103948900000

License Number / 231358700000

Market Co. Jothen Central Gallery (Hamad Mubarak beside red tag) - Salmiya - Block 9 Phone 1868888 Fax / 25748405