A fresh batch of 263 irregular Bangladeshi citizens will be repatriated from Libya to Bangladesh on Tuesday, said a senior official.
“Those Bangladeshis who are in the detention centres of Libya will be brought back gradually. Work is underway. It will be done gradually. It depends on how many Bangladeshis are there in the detention centres. Modalities will be worked out,” alternative spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Rafiqul Alam told reporters on Sunday in a weekly media briefing.
With the best efforts of the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and the direct cooperation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 143 irregular Bangladeshi nationals detained at the Ainjera Detention Center in Tripoli were transferred on a chartered flight on November 28.
Another batch of 110 people was repatriated by a chartered flight on November 30.
After landing at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the destitute repatriated Bangladeshi citizens were welcomed at the airport by the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
IOM gave each of them pocket money of Tk 5,896 and some food items.
The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said the alternative spokesperson.
