Faulty process, false promises
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With a two-year job contract and dreams of a better life, Akhi Begum (not her real name) left for Saudi Arabia in mid-2019.
But the 27-year-old returned home in Munshiganj within three months, as the work conditions were nothing like what she had been promised.
An excessive workload for a 10-member family, along with a lack of livelihood support such as food and clothes, made the domestic worker soon flee her employer s house in Riyadh.
Saudi police later nabbed and imprisoned her for more than two weeks on charges of absconding before she was given an out-pass by the Bangladesh mission for deportation.