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Testimony begins in UAE officer trial
Accused of keeping an unpaid servant
Updated: Monday, 18 Jul 2011, 4:30 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 18 Jul 2011, 12:23 PM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Testimony has begun in the trial of a United Arab Emirates military officer accused of keeping an unpaid servant while studying at the Naval War College in Rhode Island.
The servant, identified as Elizabeth Cabitla Ballesteros, took the stand Monday in the trial of Col. Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali.
Al-Ali has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lured the Filipino woman to the U.S., failed to pay her and kept her confined
in his house.
Prosecutors have said she eventually escaped and went into hiding. Al Ali is being tried in U.S. District Court in Providence
before Chief Judge Mary Lisi.
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