21.   Stories of abuse of overseas workers, including rapes of maids and swindling of manual laborers, abound here.

22.   The deportees, most of whom worked as manual laborers, said they surrendered their passports with work permits to their employers.

23.   The sum is well beyond what the three manual laborers earn.

24.   They included two children and seven manual laborers, the National Intelligence Service said in a news release.

25.   Among the crowds, there were also many young Afghan refugees who work in Iran as manual laborers.

26.   But because of high unemployment here, the Iranian labor ministry recently banned employers from hiring foreigners -- a measure which mainly affects Afghan manual laborers.