The remaining 26 Bangladeshi migrants who have been granted a pardon by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, returned on Friday.
An Indigo Air Lines flight carrying the Bangladesh nationals landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 3:05pm, according to a press release.
Shariful Hasan, associate director of BRAC鈥檚 Migration Programme and Youth Platform, said that these workers who returned to the country were given urgent assistance, including transportation costs from our BRAC Migration Programme through the Expatriate Welfare Desk.
He said that the expatriate welfare ministry鈥檚 Wage Earns Welfare Board and BRAC would work for the economic and social reintegration of these expatriates.
For this, psycho-social and economic support would be provided as per their needs, he added.
In July, a court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) jailed 57 Bangladesh nationals for holding protests in the Gulf country against the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government in Bangladesh.
Three Bangladeshis were sentenced to life, 53 others to 10 years in prison, and one to 11 years for 鈥榞athering and inciting riots鈥� during protests.
Later, the president of the country ordered to pardon all those 57 Bangladeshis at the request of Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh.
Then 31 Bangladeshis returned to the country in three phases. The remaining 26 returned on Friday.
