Staff Reporter :
A total of 45 Bangladeshi illegal migrants reached home from the United States in the wee hours of Wednesday.
“Their repatriation process was completed in collaboration with Bangladesh Embassy in Washington and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” a deputy secretary of the ministry said.
A special Bangladesh Biman flight carrying the deported Bangladeshis reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 2am.
They were tortured in the custody and kept handcuffed in the flight too, the deportees alleged.
They said that, they reached at US after traveling 10 to 12 countries. They gave handsome money to the middlemen, but they cheated with them.
The deportees said, they were in prison in the US for several months. They were tortured severely in the US jails, which is the violation of International Human Rights Law, the deportees alleged.
Earlier on April 1 this year, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that US would be sending back some “illegal migrants”.
