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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) \u2014 More than 70 Kenyan women have documented their harrowing experiences working as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, a new report by Amnesty International<\/a> released on Tuesday shows.<\/p>\n In the report, launched in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, the rights group documents how workers were deceived by recruitment agents, denied rest days, and worked under inhumane conditions with little or no pay.<\/p>\n One of the women, Bigeni Maina Mwangi, told The Associated Press how she was promised a beautician job in Saudi Arabia, she instead found herself thrust into a life of domestic servitude under exploitative conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe contract I signed in Nairobi was changed the moment I landed,\u201d she said. \u201cThe agent said I had no choice but to work.\u201d<\/p>\n Mwangi worked in Saudi Arabia for 17 months without pay. When she was finally sent home, her promised wages never came. Due to rising unemployment in Kenya, she found a better job in Dubai, but a return to Oman in 2020 led to even grimmer conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cI worked in three houses non-stop, often without food,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n