Shawdesh Desk:

Hosna Akhter, who has gone through horrible experiences of alleged torture and sexual abuse while working as a housekeeper for a Saudi Arabian family, returned Dhaka at last on Wednesday night.

A flight of the Saudi Airlines ‘SV 804’, carrying Hosna landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital around 11:20 pm.

Newsmen gathered at terminal-2 of the Dhaka airport and waited for the arrival of Sumi Akter, but she departed the airport from terminal-1 for her home in Habiganj escaping the attention of media.

She was rescued after foreign minister AK Abdul Momen and state minister M Shahriar Alam talked to officials concerned at Bangladesh Mission in Saudi Arabia and asked to rescue her after a video message of the woman describing physical and mental torture inflicted by her employer went viral on social media.

Earlier, a Facebook video clip Hosna went viral on social media platforms seeking help to escape alleged torture by her employers in Saudi Arabia.

Victim Husna Akter, wife of Shafiullah of Ajmiriganj upazila of Habiganj, went Saudi Arabia to change her luck about 3 weeks ago after being recruited as a housemaid in a Saudi family by a local agency named ‘Arab World Distribution’.

In the video clip, circulated on Social media platforms including Facebook, Hosna claimed that she was experiencing torture and harassment by her Saudi employers.

The housemaid sent the video clip to his husband Shafiullah seeking help to escape the torture and return Bangladesh.

After receiving the video message, Shafiullah went to the office of Arab World Distribution to complain about the matter.

But officials of the recruiting agency demanded Tk 1 lakh for bringing Husna Akter back from Saudi Arabia, according to her husband.

Shafiullah also alleged, “They (officials of the recruiting agency) hurled abusive words at my wife.”

Later, a few days ago, he posted the video clip in Facebook with the help of his brother seeking help in returning her wife home.

Shafiullah claimed that Shahin, a local broker, sent Husna to Saudi Arabia promising domestic job through recruiting agency Arab World Distribution.