Exploited 65 women workers are scheduled to return from Saudi Arabia on Thursday night.

Bangla Tribune ran a story on Aug 28 after 50 women workers posted a video message urging to return home.

BRAC Migration Program applied to the Wage Earners Board of the Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry seeking to bring back 37 of them.

These 37 women are among the 65, who are expected to arrive at the Dhaka Airport around 8:30pm Thursday on an Etihad Airways flight.  

BRAC Migration Program’s chief Shariful Hasan told Bangla Tribune, “Family of these 37 women wrote to us seeking help to bring them back home and we filed an application to the ministry on Aug 27.” 

“They are set to land today, we were informed,” he added.

Shafiqul Islam, husband of Sabina, one of the women expected to return on Thursday told Bangla Tribune, “My wife is returning home; so I was told. I will go to the airport to pick her up.”

Previously an official at the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh said that expected date of the women workers’ return is difficult to say in advance.

Sarwar Alam, Labour Counsellor at the Dhaka Mission in Riyadh said, “It’s tough to specify a date for their return because, the Saudi authorities will first clear them for exit, and then there’s the issue of flight availability.”

“Given, it’s the time of Hajj pilgrims’ return. It’s only natural, that it will take some time,” he added.