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LONDON (Reuters) - The British judiciary has ruled to compensate more than half a million dollars for a former employee at the Qatar embassy in London after being harassed and harassed by Qatari diplomats.
Diane Kingson, a 58-year-old British woman who worked at the Doha embassy between 2006 and 2014, confirmed to the court that Qatari ambassador Fahad Al-Mashiri has repeatedly tried to establish a relationship, the Times reported in a report titled (Diplomats at the Qatar Embassy putting pressure on a British sex worker). With her and when she refused to pay attention to her daughter, who was 19 years old at the time.
"The second diplomat in the embassy, in terms of importance, Ali al-Hajri, has pressured her to get her to have sex parties and travel with him to Cuba on vacation," Kingson said.
"She felt insulted and was suffering from the background of these harassment of clinical depression and thinking about the possibility of suicide and taking medicines to overcome the consequences of such harassment," she said, noting that she could not leave this work as a mother of two children and without a breadwinner.
The judges found that the former employee had been subjected to a "vicious and malicious harassment and discrimination campaign" that had brought her to the brink of suicide and eventually led to her unfair dismissal in 2014.
Kingson was awarded compensation of 389,820 pounds, more than half a million dollars, for a "ferocious and malicious campaign of sexual harassment and religious discrimination" that ended with her dismissal.
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