
A Saudi court has executed two Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia for allegedly having physical intercourse in a mosque. However, no opportunity was given to present any argument about them. The Saudi authorities did not even feel the need to inform the embassy of the country of their nationality.
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If not, why are the Saudi courts blind to the number of sexual assaults and rapes that hundreds of Bangladeshi women go to Saudi Arabia every year? What do they say Sharia court?
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Have you ever seen the Saudi government jailing those citizens? Well, far from imprisonment, have they ever been brought to justice?
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Can you imagine how many Bangladeshi women’s bodies come to Bangladesh after being tortured in Saudi Arabia every year? Do you know how many women committed suicide?
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2,315 Bangladeshi women returned from Saudi Arabia in 2018-19, most of whom reported sexual and physical abuse.
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Of the 110 women who returned from Saudi Arabia in August 2019, 35 percent were victims of physical or sexual abuse. 38 of them were subjected to two types of torture simultaneously and 48 did not receive regular salary.
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From 2016 to September 2020, 473 bodies of women have arrived from the Middle East. Of these, 175 bodies came from Saudi Arabia and at least 81 women committed suicide after being sexually assaulted.
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But these tortures are not of tomorrow. It has been going on for decades. Al Jazeera wrote in 2019 that at least 66 Bangladeshi women have died in Saudi Arabia in the previous four years, from 2015 to 2018, including 52 suicides.
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All of them chose suicide after being tortured. But the Sharia Court of Saudi Arabia is completely blind and silent on this matter.
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In 2019, the BBC spoke to a Bangladeshi woman who had returned from Saudi Arabia. He said, he was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for about one and a half years, out of which he had to spend 5 months in police custody.
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That woman’s name is Amena Begum. He said, ‘I was subjected to physical abuse at the house where I went to work, because I did not agree to the sexual proposal.
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I was not allowed to eat for three consecutive days because I did not agree to the sexual proposal. At one stage he was beaten and his hands were broken and he was thrown out of the house. ‘Then the police found me late at night in front of the house and took me to the police station.’ Later, after treatment, he was forced to return to that house through the agent there.
After returning there, he was subjected to physical torture and sexual abuse for quite some time.
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Amena said, ‘I was subjected to physical torture and was not given regular food. And out of the one year I worked, I was paid only two months; That too is partial.’
After the physical torture, he was once again thrown out of the house one night when the police found him in front of the house and later he was taken into police custody.
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Later he was arranged to return home from police custody. However, there was no allegation in this regard in the court.
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BBC also spoke to a woman named Salma Begum of Khulna. His younger sister died due to torture in Saudi Arabia. But they could not ask for any justice. The body was also found much later.
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“Due to torture, my younger sister ran away from a family in Saudi to the police station. But the family took her back from the police station and tortured her again. Then we came to know that she died. “My sister died on March 4. But we got the body on 20th of last month. Although we were given a certificate of death from heart disease, the back of the head was broken and disfigured. There were marks of torture on the body.
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Where was the so-called Sharia law of Saudi?
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There is a law called blood money in Saudi Arabia. Where were the laws of the poor? While some Bangladeshi fools are excited about Saudi Sharia law, Saudis feel innocent when they hear Sharia law.
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My question to those who claim that there is no rape, no murder, no torture in Saudi Arabia, where is their Sharia law when there are so many hundreds of dead bodies? Or they say they are poor, Sharia law does not apply to them? For whom is the so-called Sharia law of Saudi?
The picture is of a father. This father broke down in tears when he came to pick up the body of his daughter who was sexually and physically abused and murdered in Saudi Arabia.
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