The households of eight Bangladeshi expatriates detained in Saudi Arabia maintain appealed to the Bangladesh executive for immediate intervention to real their beginning and enable them to proceed their industry actions.
Correct thru a press conference held today time (9 September) at the Dhaka Journalists’ Solidarity, kinfolk of the detained individuals voiced their issues.
M Nurul Kabir, a household member of undoubtedly one of many detained Bangladeshis, explained that the detention took place within the aftermath of a student-led recede in Bangladesh, which resulted in the autumn of the autocratic regime on 5 August. The recede acquired frequent enhance from both within the country and among Bangladeshi expatriates distant places.
Kabir said that on 16 August, to honour the martyrs of the Anti-discrimination Pupil Circulate, expatriates in Saudi Arabia’s Muhayil and Abha organized a prayer meeting and dialogue. The tournament used to be attended by native Bangladeshi expatriates, however following the gathering, Saudi police detained the tournament’s organizers. These eight individuals maintain been held in custody for the past 23 days.
The detention of the household breadwinners has plunged their kinfolk into severe hardship, Kabir said, identifying the detainees as Mohammad Zainal Abedin, Hafiz Rahmatullah, Mohammad Khalilur Rahman, Mohammad Omar Faruk, and Salim Ul Islam from Chattogram, to boot to Maulana Yusuf and Mohammad Ashraful Islam from Bandarban.
The affected households maintain made repeated makes an try to contact Saudi authorities however maintain had no success in securing their beginning. They are definitely attention-grabbing for urgent intervention from the Bangladeshi executive, believing it to be per chance one of the top methodology to break certain their loved ones’ freedom.
