Dear SirI just wish to bring this complaint of human violations (civil violations) by a Chicago based Business company with the following name and address.
Name of company = Barakah Hajj & UmrahPhone Number = 630-629-0630Fax Number = 630-925-0630E-mail address = [email protected] Address = 1S 085 Summit Avenue Oakbrook Terrace IL 60181
World Human rights day against Human violations is December 10th and I feel extremely sad to write this review about Barakah Hajj's performance owned by Dr. Riaz Akhtar from Chicago, Illinois USA. Which is an open human rights violations.
I saw a dream through out my life to go to Hajj and perform Hajj peacefully, I waited for that day for a long time. I saved my money for this occasion.
One of my family friend's friend recommended Barakah Hajj and I didn't even search reviews, because in my innocent mind I trusted Dr. Riaz Akhtar blindly because I can not even imagine even in my wildest dreams that anyone could even do such devilish deeds as Dr. Riaz Akhtar do to loot and plunder money in the name of hajj. I understand that this world is full of thugs and corrupt people, but, Hajj was my last hope which is gone with what I experienced at the hands of Dr. Riaz Akhtar during Hajj days.
First of all when everything was done, money was given till then Dr. Riaz Akhtar was nicey nice with all those false promises and false packages. And then I called him before Hajj to ask few questions, instead of being co operative he screamed (yelled) at me and refused to talk to me over the phone as he was busy and he didn't have time for my useless questions and he threatened me that if? I will open up my mouth I would not only loose my Hajj money, I will be interrogated and he also told me in a very threatening tone that I should do (sabar and shakur) means to be patient and should not whine for whatever sufferings I get at the hands of this thug called Dr. Riaz Akhtar). That was my first interaction with this thug called Dr. Riaz Akhtar which left a bitter image in my raw mind.
Then when I landed on Jeddah airport (hajj terminal), I was left alone for 24 hours without Dr. Riaz or one of his representative's appearance to receive me and to guide me to Mecca. I was left alone at the hands of strangers who were torturing me for not showing them my group leader and when I called Dr. Riaz, he didn't answer and then after calling him numerous times, finally he answered his cell phone and ordered me in a very harsh tone to hire a taxi and come to Mecca myself which I tried to do and was subject to violation of Saudi laws without my leader and they threatened to arrest me, if, I would try to travel on my own. Then finally I got in to a bus after 24 hours of torture and harassment which was sent by Dr. Riaz which is another torture to travel. When we reached Mecca after 14 hours of tortuous bus journey, we were told in Mecca's hotel that there was no rooms reserved for us in that room by Barakah Hajj company. Then we called Dr. Riaz Akhtar again who didn't answer his phone for few hours, we had to spend several hours without any room in the foot steps of that hotel, finally we got our rooms which were very small rooms for more people...
Then what happened in Mina was shocking to us, Dr. Riaz Akhtar accomodated 50 persons in a small tent which was not even sufficient for 8 persons where we were even unable to walk without jumping upon sleeping people and hitting them, that tent did not had any private bath rooms as promised by Dr. Riaz Akhtar. This man promised us that this tent would be occupied by 8 to 10 persons and two private bath rooms per tent with fresh food daily. Dr. Riaz Akhtar exposed us to extreme violation of human rights where he gathered us in the name of religion called Hajj subject to dying, being looted, plundered, wounded, being exposed to different diseases, sleeping with feces and urine, women being exposed to strangers in an unethical way, being abused in the name of religion. Yes, this man Dr. Riaz Akhtar did commit violations of human rights by giving us old rotten foods, almost all of us got food poisoning along with other contagious diseases absolutely due to dumping of 50 people in one tent with horrible sanitation conditions.
When we went to Arafat, our tent was without any air for the whole day and not only that Dr. Riaz Akhtar left us without food for hours and finally people from other tents gave us their left over foods and teas as a charity...
Then Dr. Riaz Akhtar left us deliberately in Mecca's streets without any help because he didn't wait for us as we were performing our last Hajj ceremonies in Haram which was extremely populated at that time. Dr. Riaz Akhtar took his bus to Medina without us and when we tried to contact him, he yelled at us and accused us for his own unorganized behavior. And not only that he didn't help us, neither did his agents. All they did were to misguide us and telling us to go back and forth for no reason. At the end we hired a taxi and paid the driver triple amount to go to Medina and we took the big risk of traveling without passport which is illegal in Saudia (all because of this man, called Dr. Riaz Akhtar... He tortured us each and every step of our Hajj... That is very sad...
When we reached Medina, again there were No rooms for us. We had to spend several hours without rooms. Finally, we got a room and just after one hour of getting that room, manager called us and threatened and yelled at us by saying, " get out of these rooms, these are my room, they are not Dr. Riaz Akhtar's rooms, If you won't? I will throw your luggage out. You won't have any reservations and he didn't pay us any money."
Again, we were extremely tortured...
I request you to help me and end further civil (human violations) by this company in the name of religion.
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