{"id":807435,"date":"2026-03-06T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:54:20","slug":"the-hidden-scandal-of-modern-slavery-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807435\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden scandal of modern slavery in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria* was first brought to London in 2009. The 45-year-old, originally from the Philippines, began working with a wealthy Saudi family in 2013. She says she was promised the minimum wage and one day off each week. Instead, she worked up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, without pay, and her employers held on to her passport \u201cfor safekeeping\u201d. Passport or visa confiscation is a common kafala practice, designed to ensure cooperation, and is often accompanied by explicit or implied threats of deportation. \u201cI didn\u2019t know where I was,\u201d says Maria. \u201cI didn\u2019t know my rights. I thought if I left, I would be arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria* was first brought to London in 2009. The 45-year-old, originally from the Philippines, began working with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,40,257,178034,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-807435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-modern-slavery","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116181156875010804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}