Foreign diplomats are abusing their immunity from prosecution to keep domestic workers as slaves in Britain, an investigation has found.
The workers, most of whom come from poor countries in Africa and Asia, are forced to work for up to 20 hours a day for as little as 10p an hour.
Their employers routinely confiscate their passports so they cannot run away, make them sleep on the floor and ban them from leaving the house, the investigation disclosed.
Police said that they are often unable to investigate foreign diplomats, or members of often extensive royal families, who are mistreating their household staff because they have immunity from prosecution and the workers they bring to the country have no protection under British law.
Comment: If everybody is equal under the eyes of the law and nobody is above the law then this could not happen. It is one thing to give diplomats immunity from prosecution if they are doing their jobs, and quite another to give them immunity from prosecution for outright criminal behaviour.
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