Saudi dream
Saudi dream turns into nightmare for Bangladeshi worker Sumi
“They pounced on me almost every single night. I fainted at times but they didn’t stop. They’d beat me up if I protested” – this is how Bangladeshi worker Sumi Akter, who returned from Saudi Arabia after five and a half months, described her ordeal.
“I went there for work but why was I subjected to such inhuman physical and sexual torture?” she asked.
Sumi, daughter of day-labourer Md Rafiqul Islam of Panchagarh’s Boda Upazila, went to the kingdom as a domestic help on May 30.
She said her husband, Nurul Islam, instigated her to go to Saudi Arabia as a domestic help.
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