Faridpur man detained for human trafficking in Lybia
Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday detained a human trafficker from his house in Faridpur for his alleged involvement in abducting fellow countrymen in Libya and realising ransoms from their families.
Besides, Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli today published a photograph of the human trafficker identified as Billal Hossain of Faridpur.
The Libyan police arrested at least 10 Bangladeshi human traffickers, including Sujan, in November, according to the embassy.
Last month, the Libyan police rescued at least 65 Bangladeshis from the traffickers' den at Tajoura suburb of the war-torn nation's capital and detained 37 other Bangladeshis for trying to cross Mediterranean Sea.
The Bangladesh government in June last year officially banned sending its nationals to Libya on security grounds.
Libya has also suspended recruitment of workers against the backdrop of its troublesome situation.
But the traffickers, who are now working for some recruiting and travel agents based in Bangladesh, remain very active and cheat jobseekers for the last two years, ASM Ashraful Islam, labour counsellor, told The Daily Star.
“The traffickers use Egypt and Tunisia as transit points to send jobseekers to Libya. There are some active groups both in Bangladesh and Libya,” he added.
These trafficking gangs confine the jobseekers at their dens in Libya and realise ransoms from their families, Ashraful said.
However, the embassy has sought the Libyan police's assistance in tracking down the traffickers, he informed.
The embassy also urged the Bangladeshis to assist the law enforcement agencies to detain the human traffickers.
Currently, more than 30,000 Bangladeshis are working amid the risky situation in Libya that repatriated 32,000 Bangladeshis in 2011 soon after the overthrow of long-time military ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
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