Saudi Arabia: 35 Bangladeshi female workers cry out for return

As many as 35 Bangladeshi female migrants in Saudi Arabia have urged the government to bring them back home amid the extradition spree. In a video, the sobbing women were seen detained at an unknown place.

In the 45-second video, a worker said that they took shelter at a detention cell in Saudi Arabia. She said that they fled from their workplaces in the wake of inhuman torture by their employers.

Bangladesh has been sending female migrant workers Saudi Arabia under a domestic workers' agreement signed between the two countries in 2015.

According to BRAC, a non-governmental organization working with Bangladeshi migration workers, 13 thousand female workers returned home from Saudi Arabia in the last four years.