Bangladesh called Sunday for a migrant worker to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia after her tearful video alleging sexual abuse highlighted the exploitation faced by poor Asians working abroad.
In a Facebook video which was shared thousands of times and prompted protests in Dhaka against worker conditions, Sumi Akter alleged "merciless sexual assaults" by her Saudi employers.
"I perhaps won't live longer. Please save me. They locked me up for 15 days and barely gave me any food. They burned my hands with hot oil," the 25-year-old Akter said.
Her husband Sirajul Islam told AFP news agency he had been "trying to get her back but couldn't".
The government in Dhaka on Sunday called on the state-run manpower exporting agency to bring Akter back home "as soon as possible".
Since 1991, some 300,000 Bangladeshi women have traveled to the Gulf nation to work, according to the ministry of expatriates' welfare.
Millions of Asians travel to the Gulf to work, according to Bangladesh's government, and human rights groups say many suffer exploitation and abuses with no channels for redress.
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