The country's government pardoned another 75 expatriate Bangladeshis detained for marching and protesting in the United Arab Emirates against the killing and persecution of students during the July-August anti-discrimination movement of this year.
On Friday (November 29), the information officer of the Expatriate Welfare and Foreign Employment Ministry said. This was informed in a press release sent by Shefayet Hossain.
It is said that the country has so far released a total of 188 people under amnesty, including 75 newly released people.
Earlier, in a briefing on September 3, the press secretary of the Chief Adviser Shafiqul Alam said that the President of the United Arab Emirates had a telephone conversation with the Chief Adviser on August 28. There was a major issue of waiving the punishment of 57 Bangladeshis. The Chief Adviser urged the President to pardon the migrant workers. The president kept his word. The chief adviser received this good news.
It should be noted that 57 Bangladeshis were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment by the country's court for protesting in the United Arab Emirates in solidarity with the quota reform movement. Three of them were sentenced to life imprisonment, 53 to 10 years and one to 11 years.
