Allow UAE debt prisoners to work to earn their freedom, embassy says - The National

Prisoners should be allowed to work so they can repay the debts that put them behind bars, the Indian Embassy has said.

"If they remain in jails they can't do anything and they further lose their capacity to repay," said MK Lokesh, the Indian ambassador.

There are about 1,300 Indians, including 40 women, in UAE jails, the embassy said. "We are thinking about how to help them so they can recover the loans they had taken and repay them," Mr Lokesh said.

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