Saudi girl convicted of murdering Bangladeshi maid in uncommon verdict

A Saudi girl has been convicted of murdering her Bangladeshi maid by a felony court docket in Saudi Arabia, in a ruling rights teams within the South Asian nation stated was a uncommon instance of an employer being discovered responsible of abusing a migrant employee.
Ayesha Al Jizani was sentenced on Sunday to dying by the court docket for killing Abiron Begum in March 2019, some two years after Begum went to the Gulf state in quest of higher paid work, a Bangladeshi authorities official stated. Begum’s family urged the Bangladeshi authorities to take motion towards the brokers who “tricked” Begum, 40, into taking the job in Saudi Arabia 4 years in the past.
“(She) wanted to go abroad to earn more money so that she could pay for her aged parents,” Ayub Ali, Begum’s brother-in-law, instructed the Thomson Reuters Foundation.”They began torturing her two weeks after she left.

She would name us and cry … we begged the brokers right here to carry her again, however nobody listened to us.”Jizani’s husband was jailed for 3 years for failing to assist Begum entry medical remedy and making her work exterior the household residence illegally, confirmed Ahmed Munirus Saleheen, asenior official at Bangladesh’s expatriate ministry.Jizani’s son was despatched to a juvenile facility for seven months, Saleheen added.
Bangladesh is likely one of the world’s high exporters of labour and relies upon closely on the remittances they ship residence to family.Prior to the pandemic, about 700,000 Bangladeshis used to journey overseas for jobs yearly, with Saudi Arabia being the highest vacation spot regardless of having one of many highest recruitment charges for migrant jobseekers from the South Asian nation.
Labour rights activists say the payment, which is commonly paid by a community of unofficial brokers, opens the door to exploitation and trafficking.
Campaigners stated the Saudi court docket’s verdict towards an employer was uncommon.”I’ve been working within the migration discipline for a number of years and I’ve by no means heard of such a verdict,” stated Shakirul Islam, head of the Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program, which offers with migrant rights in Bangladesh.