Expatriates now can get legal aid thru hotline

The government is set to provide legal aid to Bangladeshi expatriates alongside the existing legal assistance for the poor and insolvent citizens of the country.
The expatriates living anywhere in the world can get this legal assistance over telephone contact. A hotline service has been opened to this effect under the aegis of the National Legal Aid Services Organisation (NLASO), a law ministry press release said.
Law Minister Anisul Huq formally inaugurated the service at Labour Bhaban in the capital yesterday. The hotline numbers are--01799090011 and 01799090022.
Addressing the inauguration, the minister said nearly eight million Bangladeshi expatriates were currently living abroad and there was hardly any forum for them to look into their problems and provide them legal advice and information.
Even these people do not understand where to get legal aid. So, they easily fall victim to various abuses and exploitations, he said.

On the other hand, migrants' family members living in homeland also face various troubles and hardly find any way out legally.
Against this backdrop, the government took the initiative, he said.
Law and Justice Division Secretary ASSM Zahirul Haque and NLASO Director Syed Aminul Islam also spoke on the occasion.

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