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		Sarah's plight may have shocked the world, but the tragedy of her case is that it is not unique.
		Sarah's action of self defense was ruled out and instead it was argued that she had in fact premeditated the murder.
		Sarah's character and credibility were soon put into question, disputing her testimony that she had been raped, in spite of the fact that medical evidence existed which corroborated this and was presented and accepted in the initial trial.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kalayaan/lh_news_8.htm (1773 words)

	Global Nation \| INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sarah Balabagan, who as a young overseas worker stabbed her employer dead in Abu Dhabi while fending off his advances and subsequently came close to death herself, is engaged to marry her boyfriend of three years.
		Sarah said Russell's sincerity set him apart from the other men she had known, and was the very backbone of their relationship.
		Sarah and Russell's love story is marked by opposites, which, to their minds, could be the very reason they grew strong as a couple.
	www.inq7.net /globalnation/sec_new/2003/aug/09-03.htm (1099 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		The Sarah Balabagan Story opens with the attempted sexual assault, moving to Sarah as a young girl in the Philippines, burdened by a life of grinding poverty in a household where the parents constantly squabble in front of the children.
		From there the tale edges toward the present, from Sarah's decision to work in Saudi (the overseas workers' term for all Arab states), through her lying about her age (she was 14 at the time), to her problems with her Emirates family, including when her employer's father offers her jewelry in exchange for sex.
		One controversial scene relates how a woman doctor examines Balabagan and advises her to testify that the rape was successful, "to make it easier for you in court." The doctor then changes her evidence, leaving the maid open to the charge of murder, rather than the less serious offense of manslaughter.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/97/0328/feat1.html (906 words)

	Brudirect.com - News Updates
		Sarah Balabagan, a former Filipino overseas worker who was snatched from the jaws of death, is now a recording star and a tele-magazine programme host for Biyaheng Langit (Trip to The Sky).
		Sarah Balagagan was an under-aged domestic helper in the Middle East when she was sentenced to death for stabbing her employer who allegedly tried to sexually assault her.
		Sarah Balabagan has been with the group since its initial telecast last April 200, and this April will be our first anniversary, which will be a special one," Myrna said.
	www.brudirect.com /DailyInfo/News/Archive/Apr01/080401/bb14.htm (383 words)

	DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
		Sarah's family--flown all-expenses-paid to the gulf by the Philippine government--presented a birth affidavit, which gives her age as 16 and too young for capital punishment.
		Balabagan owes this vigorous advocacy by her government to the unfortunate fate of Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino maid sentenced to death for a double murder last year in Singapore.
		But Balabagan's reprieve will not alleviate conditions for the hundreds of thousands of other Asian maids who labor there, for the contract-labor system that took her to Abu Dhabi is well entrenched, and neither Arab nor Asian governments have much incentive to change it.
	www.time.com /time/international/1995/951023/justice.html (2055 words)

	Judicial caning, Arab Emirates, Oct 1995 - CORPUN ARCHIVE aeju9510
		Balabagan was sentenced to death for premeditated murder six weeks ago after an earlier court convicted her of manslaughter and jailed her for seven years.
		The three-judge court on Monday sentenced Balabagan to 100 lashes, a year in jail and deportation upon payment of 150,000 dirhams ($41,000) in blood money to the family of the man she stabbed to death last year.
		Balabagan was condemned to death for killing 70-year-old Almas Mohammed al-Baloushi after the court rejected her claim that she stabbed him 34 times in self defence during a rape.
	www.corpun.com /aeju9510.htm (1112 words)

	Sarah Balabagan : Sarah Balabagan - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Before embarking on a recording career, Balabagan had gained attention for her well-publicized ordeal as an overseas worker in the United Arab Emirates, where she was sentenced to die for stabbing a man to death while allegedly defending herself from rape.
		The sound of Sarah Balabagan is mostly easy listening in tone, though some songs exhibit more spunk than others, as in the relatively spirited "Jack En Poy" ("Jack and Poy") and "Dalaga" ("Lady").
		Balabagan's voice and delivery, however, need developing, as she doesn't seem entirely comfortable here.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,928648,00.html (297 words)

	Filipina maid's death sentence causes outrage Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sarah Balabagan is a diminutive Filipina who, in her first trial, persuaded the court that she had murdered her employer, Almas Mohammed al-Baloushi, after he raped and assaulted her.
		Ms Balabagan was reported yesterday to be in good spirits and expressing hope that she would be pardoned, according to Philippines embassy officials who visited her in prison in the oasis town of Al-Ain.
		In the Balabagan case, the government is trying to work through the UAE's appeals procedure, without threats of diplomatic retaliation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950918/ai_n14006591 (604 words)

	The Philippines in August implemented new guidelines for the recruitment of maids to work in Singapore. On August 8, ...
		Philippine maid Sarah Balabagan came home to a hero's welcome in August, after being jailed in the United Arab Emirates for nearly two years for killing her 85-year-old employer in self-defense.
		Balabagan says she is 17, although her documents say she is 30.
		Balabagan is now a millionaire, having received more than a million pesos from a French non-government group called "Save Sarah Balabagan Movement." A German movie company has offered her $5 million for the rights to her story.
	www.migrationint.com.au /news/faroe_islands/sep_1996-16mn.html (1023 words)

	Gewalt: Sarah Balabagan, The Nightmare
		arah Balabagan was 15 when she left the Philippines to work in the United Arab Emirates.
		Like many thousand of Filipinos, Sarah had been lured overseas to work as a domestic servant by shady „employment agents“ who offer attractive sounding jobs at relatively high pay.
		As soon as she arrived in Abu Dhabi, she was sent to Al-Ain, a remote oasis town, and allocated to the home of Almas Mohammed Baloushi (aged 58), a Bedouin in retirement.
	www.learn-line.nrw.de /angebote/friedensfaehigkeit/medio/k6101.htm (138 words)

	FILIPINA.htm in Business Recorder on April 09, 1996
		"The good news is that Sarah (Balabagan) may be released from the jail in July because she showed good behaviour," Roy Seneres told reporters.
		Balabagan, who turned 17 on March 8, was sentenced to one year in prison and 100 lashes last October by a Sharia appeal court for killing her employer Almas Mohammed al-Baloushi.
		Balabagan paid the victim's family 150,000 dirhams ($41,000) in return for their agreement to drop their insistence that an earlier death sentence be carried out.
	www.paksearch.com /br96/Apr/9/FILIPINA.htm (159 words)

	Katipunan at UH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Katipunan students protest for the case of Sarah Balabagan during the arrival of President Fidel Ramos in October.
		Sarah Balabagan was a Filipina maid in the United Arab Emirates who raped by her employer.
		She killed her employer and although the rape was proven to be caused of the homicide, she languished in prison.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~lestino/katipunan.htm (1023 words)

	ASIANOW - Asiaweek
		Balabagan spent 20 months in a jail in Al-Ain, a suburb of Abu Dhabi, for the murder of her employer Mohamed Abdullah Baloushi, 67.
		Balabagan was jailed without bail and in June 1995, a local court sentenced her to seven years in prison.
		The same day Balabagan arrived, domestic helper Elisa Salem, 25, also returned -- in a coffin, a victim of her Jordanian employer's abuse and one of the 130 overseas workers returned dead so far this year.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ASIANOW/asiaweek/96/0816/nat3.html (738 words)

	WORLD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ARCHIVE: Arab Emirates: Judicial caning - February 1996 - aeju9602 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Philippine maid Sarah Balabagan was caned 100 times in a United Arab Emirates prison for stabbing her Gulf Arab employer to death.
		An Islamic court in October sentenced the teenage maid to 100 lashes and a year in prison to be followed by deportation for killing Almas Mohammed al Baloushi in July 1994.
		Balabagan has said she stabbed Baloushi 34 times in self-defense during an attempted rape.
	www.corpun.com /aeju9602.htm (159 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 - United Arab Emirates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After several judicial reviews, a Filipina domestic worker, Sarah Balabagan, was sentenced in October to 1 year imprisonment and 100 lashes to be followed by deportation on charges related to the killing of her employer.
		In one case, 16-year-old Sarah Balabagan was initially sentenced to 7 years in prison for killing her employer, who she claimed had raped her.
		An appeals court subsequently overturned the death sentence and sentenced Balabagan to 1 year imprisonment and 100 lashes to be followed by deportation.
	www.usemb.se /human/1995/neareast/united_arab_emirates.html (3996 words)

	HVK Archives: Sarah's reel life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		moving to Sarah as a young girl in the Philippines, burdened by a
		Balabagan and advises her to testify that the rape was successful,
		Balabagan is played by young entertainer Vina Morales, who gives a
	www.hvk.org /articles/0397/0190.html (786 words)

	Trade Union Congress of the Philippines
		FAMOUS overseas Filipino workers have joined the government's campaign to encourage millions of OFWs to send an additional $20 a month to their families in the Philippines.
		Balabagan achieved heroine status when she fought off and killed her employer who tried to rape her.
		She served time in prison but was released after the government and various sectors took up her case.
	tucp-ph.org /pppmachine/comments.php?id=579_0_1_0_C (324 words)

	Gli indirizzi per salvare Sarah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Per liberare Sarah Balabagan inviare fax all'Ambasciata degli Emirati Arabi Uniti al numero di Roma: (06) 36306155; oppure telegrammi e lettere al suo indirizzo: Via della Camilluccia 551, 00135, Roma.
		Le scriviamo per chiederLe di rivedere la sentenza di condanna a morte che e' stata emessa nei confronti di Sarah Balabagan, ingiustamente punita.
		We write to ask for your reconsideration of the death sentence imposed upon Sarah Balabagan, injustly punished.
	www.wolfnet.com /peacelink/sarah3.html (258 words)

	Green Left - Protest against Filipina's death sentence
		Protest against Filipina's death sentencBy Jennifer Thompson SYDNEY A group of 30 Filipinos and Australian supporters held a noisy picket on October 27 to protest the death sentence given to a 16 year-old Filipina maid, Sarah Balabagan, in the United Arab Emirates.
		Balabagan, from an impoverished area in the south of the Philippines, took a job in the UAE when she was 14 years old.
		Their demands were also raised by a Filipino speaker at the Reclaim the Night rally later that night.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/209/209p2b.htm (298 words)

	PHNO: SHOWBIZ CHATTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Inquirer's Leah Salterio Gatdula writes in her column today that Sarah, who was spared from the death penalty in the Middle East, is now all trained and packaged for a professional singing career.
		Sarah is the new singing ambassador of the Center for Pop Music Philippines, where she trained in voice and stage performance.
		Sarah will sing ''Pilipino Ka,'' a song especially written for her by singing classmate Alma Barcelon.
	www.newsflash.org /1999/04/sb/sb000773.htm (308 words)

	Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Instead, when de Castro made his visit, he pleaded for a life sentence for Ranario, contrary to the wishes of her family.
		Bragas-Regalado said that Migrante and Ranario’s family were one in asking for comprehensive justice, which happened in the cases of OFWs Sarah Balabagan and Mary Jane Ramos.
		Like Ranario, Balabagan and Ramos were also maltreated and almost raped by their respective employer but were able to return to the Philippines alive.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/6-7/6-7-migrante.htm (1171 words)

	Manila Standard: The Future is Ours
		Starved, beaten or scalded with hot water, most of the 328 overseas Filipino workers who came home from Kuwait late Thursday night were awash with sob stories, not dollars.
		And unlike Sarah Balabagan, their stories do not have happy endings yet.
		A woman who was jailed for a year said Filipino domestic helpers were molested and raped by Kuwaiti prison guards.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=news05_aug28_2004 (357 words)

	Manila Standard Today -- Señeres quits; Palace accepts -- May 25, 2005
		Señeres, who gained national prominence for his role in helping distressed overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East, said he quit because he felt uncomfortable and unwanted after he was accused by the President of being disloyal to her.
		While serving as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates in the 1990s, Señeres spearheaded the campaign to free domestic helper Sarah Balabagan who was imprisoned and charged with murder for unintentionally killing her Arab employer who tried to rape her in her bedroom.
		Señeres, an appointee of deposed President Joseph Estrada, was scolded by the President during a Palace function last month for allegedly urging United States Ambassador Francis Ricciardone to help oust Ms.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=politics03_may25_2005 (467 words)

	BagongPinay - PinayNgayon Highlight - March 2002/ Ibon Foundation Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Migrante is currently campaigning for the release of three Filipino workers currently languishing in jail in Saudi Arabia for crimes they did not commit: Joselito Alejo, Sarah Dematera and Ramiro Esmero.
		There are more Flor Contemplacion's, Sarah Balabagan's and Mary Jane Ramos'," noted.
		Filipino maids Sarah Balabagan and Mary Jane Ramos were both imprisoned
	www.newfilipina.com /members/pngayon/02.03/HettyIBON.html (1745 words)

	FileRoom.org - "Sarah Balabagan Story" banned in the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		FileRoom.org - "Sarah Balabagan Story" banned in the Philippines
		Description of Artwork: The film, "Sarah Balabagan Story," is about a Filipina maid who escaped execution for murder in United Arab Emirates in 1994.
		Description of Incident: Officials from the UAE expressed concern for Emirates-Philippino relations and for the safety of the 80,000 Philippinos living in the country if the film is shown.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/759 (115 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights Thematic Reports - Violence against Women - Special Rapporteur's Report (Feb 96)
		The Special Rapporteur wishes to inform the Commission that she has transmitted two communications to the Government of the United Arab Emirates concerning the case of a 16yearold Filipina migrant worker, Sarah Balabagan, who was reported to have stabbed her employer to death in selfdefence after having been raped at knifepoint by him.
		It was further stated that the practice of flogging does not constitute violence practised by the State against women, since it is a legitimate penalty that is applied on the basis of legal and medical considerations.
		The Special Rapporteur, therefore, strongly urges all receiving countries to ensure that the human rights of all persons within their boundaries, and specifically those of women migrant workers, are protected in accordance with their obligations under international law.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/commission/thematic52/53-wom.htm (15674 words)

	THE MEGASTAR ABS
		But the most challenging role she has landed so far was in the movie The Sarah Balabagan Story, where she emoted the pain, the sexual abuse and all the harrowing experiences of OCW (Overseas Contract Worker) Sarah Balabagan in the hands of her Arab employer.
		Her portrayal of Balabagan as a rape victim has led to more and better roles in movies.
		To date, movie critics continue to hail the young actress’ performances in comedy, action and dramatic movies.
	www.dubaisuperstar.com /vinamorales__abs.htm (545 words)

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