Dhaka, Nov. 15 -- It is just 2 minutes 28 seconds long, but about as chilling as it gets. Hiding from her abusers inside a toilet, a Bangladeshi maid in Saudi Arabia recorded herself as she made a desperate plea to be taken home, saying she had been assaulted and starved by her Saudi employers.

In the video posted on her Facebook page, 25-year-old Sumi Akter said she was physically assaulted by her employers, who had poured hot oil on her arms. "I perhaps won't live longer. Please save me. They locked me up for 15 days and barely gave me any food. They hit me and then burned my arms with hot oil," Akter said in Bangla as she wept and held up scars on her arms.

"They took me from one home to another one. In the first home, they tortured ...