Nargelene Mendez is a Filipina national, and was formerly a domestic worker in Arabia. Mendez has made allegations that she was forced to labor under inhumane slave-like working conditions, until her October rescue by a Philippine diplomatic worker. Mendez's Facebook documentation of her working conditions under her Arabian employers, which to viewers may seem to have been akin to de facto forced migrant slavery, aroused worldwide journalistic condemnation. Mendez documented claims of the physical abuse and neglect that her employers had subjected her to, including beatings, a "sleeping berth" in a laundry room cupboard, and the refusal of her employers to return her passport to her. Mendez's self-documented Facebook story received nearly half a million hits. In October the Philippine Emba