A brief update on the case of the Filipina maid in Saudi Arabia who complained that she had been repeatedly raped by her employer over a period of three years.

Arab News reports that she will shortly be repatriated but the rape charges against her employer will be dropped.

Following a meeting at a police station in Taif, she "agreed to drop the case in exchange for immediate repatriation and SR10,000 [$2,650], plus two months unpaid salaries," the paper says. Her salary was SR800 [$212] a month.

Although she is now free to leave the kingdom she will have to pay her own fare home.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 25 May 2010.