A criminal court in Saudi Arabia has handed the death sentence to a Saudi woman for killing her Bangladeshi maid in a ruling rights groups say was a rare example of an employer being found guilty of abusing a migrant worker in the Middle East country.<\/p>\n
Ayesha al-Jizani was sentenced on Sunday to death by the court for killing Abiron Begum in March 2019, some two years after Begum went to the Gulf state in search of better paid work, a Bangladeshi government official said.<\/p>\n
Begum\u2019s relatives urged the Bangladeshi government to take action against the brokers who \u201ctricked\u201d Begum, 40, into taking the job in Saudi Arabia four years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201c(She) wanted to go abroad to earn more money so that she could pay for her aged parents,\u201d Ayub Ali, Begum\u2019s brother-in-law, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey started torturing her two weeks after she left. She would call us and cry \u2026 we begged the brokers here to bring her back, but no one listened to us.<\/p>\n
Jizani\u2019s husband was jailed for three years for failing to help Begum access medical treatment and making her work outside the family home illegally, confirmed Ahmed Munirus Saleheen, a senior official at Bangladesh\u2019s expatriate ministry.<\/p>\n
Jizani\u2019s son was sent to a juvenile facility for seven months, Saleheen added.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen welcomed the verdict. \u201cI praise Saudi government for giving out this rare yet exemplary punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The minister also urged the Saudi government to investigate other cases of abuses and torture carried out on domestic workers from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
More than 300,000 Bangladeshi female workers have travelled to Saudi Arabia since 1991 but many of them return with stories of abuse and exploitation.<\/p>\n
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW) employers confiscate passports, withhold wages and force migrants to work against their will. Workers who leave their employer without their consent can be charged with \u201cabsconding\u201d and face imprisonment and deportation, HRW said.<\/p>\n
In the last five years, nearly 70 Bangladeshi female workers died in Saudi Arabia, more than 50 of them committing suicide.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh is one of the world\u2019s top exporters of labour and depends heavily on the remittances they send home to relatives.<\/p>\n
Prior to the pandemic, about 700,000 Bangladeshis used to travel abroad for jobs annually, with Saudi Arabia being the top destination despite having one of the highest recruitment fees for migrant jobseekers from the South Asian nation.<\/p>\n
Labour rights activists say the fee, which is often paid through a network of unofficial brokers, opens the door to exploitation and trafficking.<\/p>\n
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