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130 Bangladeshi workers sent back home from Saudi Arabia

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Update : Friday, October 4, 2019

News Desk | Fri,4 October 2019: The program head of Brac Migration Program Shariful Hasan confirmed this news that some 130 Bangladeshi workers has returned home from Saudi Arabia in the face of crackdown on undocumented workers there later Friday.

Shariful Hasan told that a flight of Saudi Airlines carrying the Bangladeshi workers landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka around 12 pm.

Shariful Hasan informed the media that the Bangladeshi workers complained that they were forced to return despite having valid documents, The Saudi authorities have arrested around 3.8 million foreigners, as it continues its crackdown on labor and residency violators, according to a report of Saudi Press Agency (SPA), and the Saudi country has been detaining people for violating residential, labour and border security regulations since November 2017.

On the other hand, a Saudi report said that a total of 3,790,173 people have been arrested, including over 2.95 million for residency violations, 583,602 for breaking labor laws and 247,220 for flouting border regulations, and the latest figures indicate that 544,521 people have been arrested since early June. and 940,100 expatriates have been deported.


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