SHE had not heard anything from her job placement agent for five weeks. Parti Liyani eventually decided to return to Singapore on December 2, 2016. This migrant worker from Nganjuk, East Java, planned to collect some of her belongings which had been left behind at the home of her former employer, Liew Mun Leong, and to look for a new job.

Things did not go as she planned. Right after her arrival at Changi Airport a group of police took her into