LFL: Release duped migrant workers, suspend immigration probe

Human rights group Lawyers for Liberty has urged the government to immediately release 171 migrant workers from Bangladesh, who were taken into custody when they attempted to lodge a police report against their agent.

LFL director Zaid Malek said it was appalling that the migrants were arrested en masse to be investigated for allegedly overstaying when the police had acknowledged that they entered the country legally and were merely trying to file a police report against their agent.

Should the migrants have overstayed, Zaid asserted it was “by design of unscrupulous agents for the purpose of exploitation”.

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